Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2024

  minus at least .5 star for the digital de-aging. get that shit out of there. overall, i felt like the movie was trying to do too much. alien is ultimately simple in important ways, whereas this feels like an overstuffed 2024 blockbuster

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  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2024

  i wish every movie looked like this in 2024, and Keaton’s still got it. hopefully they come up with a sensical script for the third one.

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  Masking Threshold 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Oct 2022

  I don’t want to spoil too much, so I’ll just say:

  1. I thought the filmmaking techniques were smart for the budget.
  2. Super interesting, but imo the pace (of certain things…) gets a little wonky 
  3. Wow. That shit was fucked up.

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  The Outsiders 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2022

  Just all bunch of beautiful boys touching each other and having Big Feelings. 

  
  Watched “The Complete Novel” edition as part of Alamo’s Queer Film Series.

   I haven’t heard the original “too schmaltzy” Carmine Coppola score, but I thought the period music worked really well.

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