Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bound 1996

  Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  listened to the commentary and jennifer tilly went off on a ramble about violet needing all her fingers intact to provide for corky... crazy. the energy was electric

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  The Handmaiden 2016

  Watched 03 Mar 2025

  the actual Hitchcock Deception Thriller of it all is very good but the lesbians are written so fucking awfully. every line out of their mouths when they first have sex is so fucking on the nose and it just keeps getting worse when the camera stands 15 feet away ogling the girls. the shots where sook-hee looks at the camera head on in the place where tamako's... y'know... is... groan inducing. bonafide fetishistic ass lesbian shit

Popular reviews

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  Taipei Story 1985

  Watched 28 Feb 2025

  every goddamn time i watch an edward yang movie im usually floored. a true filmmaker able to actively attune himself to the struggles of a nation and all generations that encompass it, though here it's keyed into the listlessness of being a young professional and all the heartbreak, pain, and beauty associated with it and how those feelings manifest between people of the same age group, as they grow more disparate, their pain is *everyone's* pain. absolutely beautiful stuff!!!!!!!

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  Rewatched 17 Jan 2025

  in about 2022, this was the first movie i ever bought on bluray. my mom, already acquainted with the movie for years and a lynch fan herself and my clueless dad movie watching dad sat down, and what i saw planted a seed. my mom was on hand to do the whole "explaining the movie" schtick. i didn't even think much of the movie at the time, but it festered in my mind for eons. on rewatch, the pure unfiltered…