Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Of the Flesh 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  love the unabashed creativity at play

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  Nairobi Half Life 2012

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  there's a good story here unfortunately let down by the very strange pacing. mwas carried the whole film! but i wish he didn't. it's one of those rare films where i know it was the screenplay that's wanting.

Popular reviews

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  Service 2008

  ★ Rewatched 20 Nov 2019

  Fuck pretentiousness. This film is garbage. The way it looks and sounds is horrible, probably because it's indie award bait.

  Jaclyn Jose is this film's only redeeming factor. I feel sorry for Mercedes Cabral here.

  I first saw this around 2013 before Brillante Mendoza revealed his shitty real life politics and already thought Serbis was horrible.

  I rewatched this out of boredom late 2019 and it was still horrible and I hated it even more. Poverty is an aesthetic to…

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  Waterboys 2001

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 10 Jan 2020

  Saw this first in high school and it had a special place in my heart ever since. I was young and in the company of great friends and this movie covered a similar topic. It was beautiful.

  Saw this again as a 22 year old at a low point of my life. One word: wistful.

  Sometimes emotional response is all a movie needs to create. Taking Waterboys apart piece by piece is not something I'm going to do.

  Beautiful movie. End of story.