Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Well, this has my heart.

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  The Hunted 2003

  Rewatched 17 Feb 2025

  I’ll tell you this, that KL 4K transfer is damn fine! 
  It’s really too bad the script is so hammy though. I remember renting this from Blockbuster sometime in ‘04 and liking it a fair bit as a young teen, but rewatching it now I don’t feel so sure. It has some compelling action and great effects, but it comes off a bit too preachy and ham-fisted; but hey if you’re into this kinda mid 2000’s action bread-and-butter, you’ll probably have fun. I wasn’t ever bored myself.

Popular reviews

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  Immaculate 2024

  ★★ Watched 27 Feb 2024 1

  Alright… I’ve been waiting a couple weeks to finally write about this.

  What a letdown! I’ll admit I’m a little bit of a snob when it comes to horror, but you have screenplays such as this — diluted to little more than trite jump scare after trite jump scare — it’s hard not be. If you’re not gonna be inventive or have a sense of novelty, then at least have some bite! The kills didn’t work for me. The violence…

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  The Lobster 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2020 1

  A strangely endearing satire on love and human connection.

  Yorgos Lanthimos is one the most unique directors working today. The Lobster is case in point: oddly dead-pan yet filled to the brim with humanity. If you were to watch only one of his films, I’d say The Lobster aptly gives you the gist of his style. Underneath a stilted delivery is a wonderfully bizarre world where love and all its tropes prove to be painfully literal. Where a lesser director…