Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Empire Records 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  The Michael and Us episode on this film is really great.

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  An Evening with Tim Heidecker 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025 2

  I have every line of this memorised.

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  Watched 25 Nov 2024

  A movie about the downfall of a person, made out to be 'wicked', in part due to their unshakable moral allegiance to animal rights? Basically a movie about my friend Stephen Patrick Morrissey...

  Anyway.

  Wicked is badly served by a sleep-walking performance by Ariana Grande. If she commited to the bit, and gave it a Nickelodeon style performance (instead of a faux Oscar bait one), she'd have been perfect for the role.

  The otherwise solid performances (of slightly shoddy material)…

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  Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus 2021

  ★★ Watched 30 Jan 2024 3

  The magic has gone. Cool Cat is dead and we killed him (the voice actor has been replaced by Derek Savage). Derek Savage playing three different characters in this 20 minute short film makes the entire thing feel a bit like a schizophrenic interrogation, but maybe not in a fun way? But there are three different rap songs. And Dirty Dog inexplicably does a front flip at one point - and threatens to shoot up a school. 'Cool Cat is…