Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Sheryl Lee the Good Witch!!

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  The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Here’s the thing. There was nothing terribly wrong with the movie, but really nothing about it got me either? 

  It’s perfectly coherent, and worked as the backstory to Helm’s Deep, but it just felt thoroughly unoriginal. Very much a re-tread of LOTR tropes and dialogue cliches, without offering anything new or original, while at the same time not making good use of the fact that it’s in that universe. 
  If you like films about battles, you might get something more…

Popular reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I honestly don’t know what to say about this one, because the film speaks so concisely for itself. 

  From the very beginning, every shot is so incredibly striking, and so rich with meaning. The opening extended shot of the star told a whole story on its own. 
  Very direct story about how as famous and successful a woman might be, the old men in suits will only value her as long as she fits into their box of “perfection”. Ultimately…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  Grotesquely beautiful 

  This film was something special, having me in a chokehold from the very first scene, and thrusting me right into this story. 
  It’s such a timeless telling of the story, where the movie doesn’t specifically feel like it was made in 2024, you just feel like you’re in 1838 and forget everything else. 

  Though I haven’t seen any of the older movie versions, I have read Dracula so I’m quite familiar with the story, and this adaptation did…