Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Color Purple 1985

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Some stuff that doesn’t really work here but when it works it WORKS. I cried kind of a lot?

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  1941 1979

  ★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  I laughed a handful of times!

Popular reviews

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  28 Days Later 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Apr 2020

  "With endless love, we left you sleeping. Now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up."

  That Alex Garland can sure write a thing.

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  The Wind Rises 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2020

  Almost certainly Miyazaki’s best written and most poetic film. A love letter to the undefinable, glorious, and mysterious phenomenon of human creativity.

  Perhaps no one knows more fully than Miyazaki the importance of hard work, inspiration and sacrifice that make such grand creative endeavors possible. 

  I left this film with the feeling that it will continue to play in the background of my mind, slowly revealing its secret meanings and beauties over time. Unlike my other favorite Ghibli films which…