Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Night of the Blood Beast 1958

  ★½ Watched 31 Oct 2024

  If you're a pervert whose kink is women saying "alien anamorphic cell structure" a lot, have I got a movie for you.

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  I feel bad for Francis Ford Coppola and share his dismay at the way modern life seems to be going, and I guess in a way it is cool that he could channel all that anxiety into This. I'd certainly rather have more Megalopoli than more focus-grouped IP-slop (spoiler: we are getting the latter for the foreseeable future).

  Watching this, it feels like it sits between old-timey bad movies that are mostly dull with some highspots and the new class…

Popular reviews

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  Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach 1970

  ★★★ Added

  All-atmosphere, no-intensity Polish Gothic fantasy about a German cleric who travels to Lithuania, where he meets a young count and his crazy mom. She went crazy after allegedly being attacked by a bear, so medical experts treat her by putting her in a large birdcage and dunking her into the river. Visually, this is pretty impressive: the camerawork is solid and the sets are interesting. And there are aspects of the film that will stay with you, like the witch…

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  The Bloodthirsty Fairy 1969

  ★★ Watched 29 Sep 2018

  Belgium: A guy receives a barrel of liquid with a naked girl in it. Despite marinating in water for hours already, she decides to take a bath and then daydreams about feeling up nuns and poking out eyes. Meanwhile, the guy fantasizes about the girl from the barrel. There’s a bloody and boring conclusion, then a connection to contemporary politics that is so hamfisted that I literally loled.

  Here is my horseshoe theory about movies: art films at their artiest…