Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  L'Atalante 1934

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  L’Atalante is deeply rooted in its character’s youth, and how that that inexperience mixes with love and forgiveness. It feels like something that’s missing in today’s independence-minded society, but maybe a good lesson to hold on to in the coming years (albeit minus the physical abuse and abandonment).

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Come for the spy drama, stay for the cozy British townhouse & Cate Blanchett’s wardrobe. 

  Seriously, just give the production team all the Oscars.

Popular reviews

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  Port of Shadows 1938

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2020

  A dark, brooding story about love, masculinity, and fate in France during the inter-war years. Jean Gabin is a smoldering, loveable brute trying to make a new life for himself with or without the woman he loves. He’s foiled at every step by the local criminal element, and only tragedy can ensue. 

  Carné has a sharp eye for atmosphere and Jacques Prévert’s dialogue adds a philosophical depth to otherwise stereotypical character types.

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  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Apr 2023

  I was a terrible DM when I played D&D, and this made me want to go back in the mid-90s and tell myself to just loosen up and let the PCs have fun.