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Favorite films

  • The Holy Mountain
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • Oldboy
  • Velvet Goldmine

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  • 30 Days of Night

    ★★★★

  • Border Incident

    ★★★½

  • Tongues Untied

    ★★★★★

  • Badlands

    ★★★★★

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  • 30 Days of Night

    30 Days of Night

    ★★★★

    Goofy and gory and just a general blast to watch. Infuses vampires with just the right amount of camp, Danny Huston does an amazing job portraying a main villain who is endearingly theatrical but also genuinely freaky, while the main cast is the perfect type of horror movie insert archetypes. Portrays carnage on a massive level, and takes on a quasi-zombie movie structure that I really loved. This isn't trying to be anything except a good time- this movie rocks.

  • Border Incident

    Border Incident

    ★★★½

    Adopts a unique stance on immigration for it's time, and is strikingly violent in ways I never could've predicted. Ultimately some well-shot, tensely plotted pulp with progressive politics. Not necessarily the game-changer my professor opened the screening with, but certainly a fascinating noir-western-problem-picture.

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  • Red, White & Royal Blue

    Red, White & Royal Blue

    ★½

    Did not give me enough of a boner to keep me awake. Overjoyed that we gays finally get our very own intensely mid Rom-Com, but god DAMN give me something to work with here!!!!

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★½

    There are definitely people more qualified to comment on this than me, but as a huge fan of the book, this adaptation strikes me as a bit misguided. Arguably the whole point of the book is it’s meta narrative in which this initial fantastical narrative of Bella Baxter’s “rebirth”, supposedly recounted by her husband in the book, is refuted by Bella’s own grounded version of events in which she (in the form of in-universe addendums) criticizes this primary narrative as…

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