Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Groove 2000

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  i love rave movies so much because it’s like yes, one night can change your life… and will. great music, loved all the jungle. and the plur aesthetics. and the gay couple celebrating their anniversary by listening to a john digweed tape on the car stereo by the beach. this final tune is life-affirming: youtu.be/_YifvW0fdB0

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  The Visitor 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  can’t say this was my fave… i liked the aesthetic choices and the music (shoutout hannah holland) and all of the sex was hot to me but the overt “political slogans” grated over time… “colonize the colonizer” “vote for sex change” don’t pmo! also the crowd was ridic and had not seen gay art porn in the company of others before lol. but i respect nico’s perspective too <3 i think we argued it out well while [redacted] by the water station at nonstop

Popular reviews

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  Ice Princess 2005

  ★★½ Rewatched 15 Apr 2020

  zoe block’s toxic routine in the green and black punk outfit is iconic

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2024

  screaming crying throwing up
  (edit: more thoughts below)

  i saw a producer on the film describe it as a portal and i could not agree more. i saw the tv glow reshapes what a film can be insofar as it acts as a conduit to access deeply, physically felt and ultra-personal states, fucking all the while with traditional narrative structures and senses of time; an excruciating representation of the fever pitch and fever dream experiences of coming to terms with…

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