Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970

  ★★★ Rewatched 22 Feb 2025

  Rating for the cast commentary only, which is a hot mess (and the men are gross) - if you’re gonna pick one, go Ebert 😅 overall though, still big love for this delightfully insane fever dream of a film (for so many reasons) 🤗

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  Blaze 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  Still not over seeing Audra in Gypsy, and eager to see any and all peripherally-related material. While similar, it’s plenty unique - there are some really great performances, and I always love that vintage Louisiana lewk! An unfortunate reminder that Democrats fighting for social equity will always get raked over the coals for the slightest indiscretion, while Republicans can literally get away with anything 😶 anything! Anything! ANYTHING! www. I_hate_it_here/make it stop.wake!the!fuck!up!@Jesus H Christ.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2024 1

  Not to be over the top, but…this is undoubtedly a masterpiece of gothic horror. Breathtaking cinematography à la Barry Lyndon (Eggers/Blaschke’s gift for shooting snow is akin to Kurosawa’s gift for shooting rain), with the slow burn nightmare pacing of The Shining (the Count Orlok reveal is worth the wait). The script is mesmerizing, and allowed the breathing room to really flesh out these characters, yielding one banger performance after another. Never in my wildest dreams did I think there…

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  Red Rocket 2021

  ★ Watched 10 Jan 2022 1

  Sean Baker: “So, this is an interesting thing and I haven’t mentioned this much in the press because it’s dangerous in 2021. This is the first film I’ve ever made, I think, in which I’ve had to go back and embrace the heterosexual male gaze, which is now a no no, essentially, in cinemas. It’s like, “We’re getting away from that. We’ve had a century of that.” But for me to understand this character and get the audience closer to…