Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Wayne's World 1992

  ★★★½ Rewatched 04 Mar 2025

  How did we as a society fail Tia Carrere so badly

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Overstuffed and scattershot with an intrusive score. Easter eggs and callouts prop up the story like hundreds of rats in a trench coat. Some good performances that aren't given time to develop into compelling characters. Sennott's Rosie Shuster feels like the only real human in the film (and she gives us the best look we get of Michaels in her scenes with the game LaBelle). I'd watch a whole movie anchored by Dewey's Michael O'Donoghue. I now appreciate Birdman even more in retrospect.

Popular reviews

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  Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff 2001

  Rewatched 27 Mar 2020 1

  To be fair, this absolutely killed on my high school soccer team’s bus trip to Hudson, Ohio in 2003.

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  Born on the Fourth of July 1989

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2020

  Profoundly sad, with an incredible score by John Williams and career-best (?) photography by Robert Richardson. Kovich’s character, so meticulously drawn for the first two acts as he attempts to square the cultural narratives and identity scripts of his youth with his reality, could have used a few more minutes of development between Georgia and Miami and leading up to the DNC speech. Still, this film is relevant and absolutely electric, and I think those Tom Cruise and Oliver Stone kids are going places.