Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  It’s taken me 3 times to get through this slog of a story. I only wanted to finish it to prep for the next book being released tomorrow. Rachel Ziegler wasn’t bad, she’s an amazing singer but her southern accent is terrible. The whole film as a tier below the original trilogy. It’s too long, the dialog is bad, the supporting cast in the area were all corny. It’s missing all the emotion and impact of the original. Watch if…

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  Enemy 2013

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  **spoiler**It’s the worst DV film I’ve seen, even after researching WTF it all meant, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad.  It’s a lot like Fight Club but the club in this movie is an underground club for weird perverts. The spider symbolism works for the most part. It’s really a clever film and I love what it has to say about everything is a cycle and it’s really hard (or impossible) to break those cycles.

Popular reviews

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  Problemista 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  A unique and creative look at the immigrant experience. Tilda Swinton was excellent but her character was so repulsive I wanted to turn it off and checked how much time was left multiple times. It’s hard to recommend because of her character. Similar to Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter. As annoying as she is, she’s not all bad. That said, watch for the creativity.

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  Told through a first person view of 2 teens forced into a reform school in the 1960s, Nickel Boys shows us the horrors that went on in their school.  Nickel Academy is a fictionalized version of the real life Dozier school, where these sorts of things happened. It’s so uniquely and beautifully told, Nickel Boys is a masterpiece in the human rights genre. It is told through a series of first person vignettes and the timeline jumps around a bit,…

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