Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nuovo Olimpo 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This film had a lot of heart. You can feel how the director cared for these characters. Third act was quite weak. I think they extended it too much, could’ve been shorter, tighter and wish the sound designer & composer had followed the example of the wonderfully scored Italian films that precede this one as opposed to an Americanized traditional scoring that only detracted from carefully built sentimentality, leaking it all into unnatural melodrama.

  Made me want to move to Rome,…

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  An Urban Allegory 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  magnetizing

Popular reviews

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  Fellow Travelers 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  “My whole life I waited for God to love me. Now I’ve come to realize that what matters is that I love God. I can say the same thing about loving you.”

  This is Mad Men meets Oppenheimer meets The Boys in the Band. A glorious homage to a generation of queer males that were ravaged by their time and place. Such a poignant and beautiful series.

  I’m grateful we got to see so much gay sex, amen.

  I’m on the floor.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2022

  We were shooting on a location for this Showtime gig I’m on, squat in the middle of Times Square, which sounds just as fun as you’d imagine. It was supposed to go on till 9PM, but we wrapped at 5:00 and everyone was in good spirits about that. I realized I had an afternoon off, and I saw a taxi with an ad for this movie drive by in front of me. I thought to myself “why not treat myself…