Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Blob 1958

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  The Blob is a Blah kind of movie. It's a real Bummer that this film emphasizes the Boring part of "B-movie."

  For all I've heard about Steve McQueen, his acting in this is atrocious, and the rest of the cast even moreso. One star goes to the opening credits song that feels like complete tonal whiplash to listen to. Yet the music some what fits since the entire film is a joke.

  Am I glad I watched this? Eh, sure, if only for historical reasons. Will I watch this again? Not if I can help it...

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  Closely Watched Trains 1966

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Here's my head canon about this tale of incredibly horny train station workers blowing up Nazis:

  Wes Anderson, discovering time travel, goes back in time to just before he was born so he could make this film. His younger self would come across it at film school and become inspired to make films in this style. It's an Anderson Time Loop.

Popular reviews

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  HyperNormalisation 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025 1

  This is essential viewing for anyone that has recognized the social and political malaise that has plagued our modern world for the past 30+ years. Though I've understood that we have lived in a post-truth political climate for years now, Curtis examines its roots in US foreign policy dating back to Kissinger and Reagan (unfortunately leaving out Thatcher) and paints a much clearer picture of why we are where we are now.

  If the past 15 years have been any…

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  There are too many iconic Nic Cage lines to list them all here, so here's a few highlights that had me cackling with delight in the theater:

  -when he says that he's been smoking cigs since he was four
  - when he smokes two cigs at the same time upon learning he's gonna be a dad
  - when he apologizes to a bunch of punks for calling them homosexuals (they had kicked the shit out of him for that)
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