Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  There are few films/shows that I prefer to watch dubbed. Cowboy Bebop has always been one of them. The English voice actors have left a permanent impression on my psyche. 

  The opening convenience store scene is actually one of my favorite moments from Bebop as a whole.  

  Shot composition and action are both so cinematically beautiful. And anytime they cut to a shot where they animate a wide angle lens/fish-eye perspective I swear I lose my fuckin’ mind. 

  
  “Are you living in the real world?”

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  This feels like this might be a film that gets better with subsequent viewings. I’ll definitely need to rewatch. 

  The couple, sexy. The plot, sexy. Even the cinematography with this kind of hazy glow to it, sexy. 

  Some real, positive Beta-boi representation here.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  I know I’m probably hyper-fixating, but everyone kept asking Mickey what it was like to die and I’m here wondering, does he remember his deaths? Are his memory uploads to the brick (I love that it’s an actual brick by the way…wtf) done in real-time, wirelessly? Telepathically? It seemed to me like he had to do routine uploads. So wouldn’t he be spared the knowledge of his own deaths?

  While I appreciate that he talks about still being afraid, I’d…

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  Lady Vengeance 2005

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Was definitely a bit confused along the way. That confusion is probably just user error, but maybe I didn’t expect this to be so experimental. 

  I’ll absolutely need to see it again. The final act was gutting. The cut to the mother falling out of her chair… 

  
  ** Watched during a midnight screening at the New Beverly Cinema where they showed a trailer for Man on Fire before it. “I wish… you had… more time.” 💥