Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mother 1996

  ★★★★ Rewatched 14 Oct 2024

  This is such an underrated gem. A tier below Brooks at his best, but what you get is still a wonderful little film.

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  John Early: Now More Than Ever 2023

  Watched 15 Sep 2024

  “An entire generation of people pretending to hate the word ‘moist’.”

Popular reviews

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  The Beatles: Get Back 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2021

  This is the one. No romanticizing and no holding back, Peter Jackson deserves all the praise for showing the gang as they were. Despite the incredible music they did create, here they are not gods— but complex and talented human beings. Why did the group fall apart? Because they never were mythological creatures, they were four dudes from Liverpool who loved to play music. 

  This is a film (or miniseries, whatever) I needed. I needed, as a creative, to remind…

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  Rabbit Seasoning 1952

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2021

  Mining the wonderful comedy well of “let’s put Daffy’s beak on a new place every time he gets shot”. 

  It’s still hilarious.