Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Mickey 17, top 5:

  5. Timo---Steven Yeun kills it as a total weasel. While Timo is largely removed from the greater plot, he gets funnier every time he shows up. A great representation of the tendency to manipulate an exploitative system instead of seeking solidarity with other class members
  4. Creepers
  3. Food---macarons, sauces, lab-grown meat, calorie rationing. Mickey 17 takes place at a grand scale, but is more concerned with how resources are divided after we've let the upper…

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  Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Barb & Star, top 5:

  5. Damon Wayans, Jr.
  4. Middle-aged people---it's not like Barb & Star is some big statement about aging, but it's nice to see a movie about how you can still grow and change and take risks in your middle age, without being a movie where it turns out the main characters are secret assassins or whatever (you know, live the John Wick knock-offs that come out every six months like clockwork)
  3. Talking club
  2. Big broad…

Popular reviews

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  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 May 2024 2

  It's interesting to me that two of the big summer blockbusters this year---"Furiosa" and "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes"--- have side characters who specifically try to tell the protagonist that if you find a way to make yourself useful, you won't have a bad life under the crazy person in charge. Furiosa the character and "Furiosa" the movie stand against complicity. An okay life without choice is not worth having. The Green Place was unattainable the second Furiosa…

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  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 08 May 2024

  The movie for people who wanted "Civil War" to explain its politics---it's the story of the freedom loving and law abiding Eagle Clan and its struggles against a vainglorious self-styled tyrant trying to control knowledge itself.

  Actually....nah. It's a movie about Apes and it rules.

  Really enjoyed how "Kingdom" inhabited this world. It played with the nooks and crannies of its human post-apocalypse to create interesting details. We're never quite on solid ground as to how long it's been since…