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Favorite films

  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Get Out
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Blindspotting

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  • Heretic

    ★★★★½

  • Heart Eyes

    ★★★★★

  • Becoming Led Zeppelin

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★½

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★★★½

    Absolutely diabolical that, over the end credits, Sophie Thatcher ("Sister Barnes") sings a cover version of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" that sounds like an "iteration" of Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You."

  • Becoming Led Zeppelin

    Becoming Led Zeppelin

    ★★★★

    Told through interviews with surviving members of the band (and audio recordings of Jon Bonham), the story of how Led Zeppelin formed and became huge in the US before conquering their homeland and the rest of the globe is way more interesting than I expected(especially since their excesses were left out[or maybe they didn't get really bad until later?]). I did wish there was more performance footage, but what's here is great and it, as well as the album tracks, sound fucking great blasted in an IMAX auditorium turned up to 11.

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  • Return to Oz

    Return to Oz

    ★★★★★

    I know I've seen this movie before, but I honestly don't remember anything from it other than the clockwork soldier.

    That said, I'm almost positive my brain blocked out the rest of this film because it is definitely one of the most disturbing and terrifying "kids film" ever released. It's easy to see why this film flopped so hard at the box office; it's almost the polar opposite of the beloved classic THE WIZARD OF OZ.

    Whereas THE WIZARD OF…

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    ★★★★★

    As Leo was doing a pep talk to his employees, I thought to myself, "he's like a profane Coach Taylor." Smart of Marty to cast Coach Taylor as the guy to bring him down, then in this bulldozer-made-out-of-diamond-and-ivory, driven-by-beautiful, large-breasteded-woman-eating-the-highest-price-cheesecake-from-The Cheesecake-Factory-topped-with-those-gold-flakes-that-one-place-served-while-blaring-"Stairway To Heaven"-and-curing-AIDS of a movie.

    [as "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters plays in the background] "It was fucking heaven."

    [sidenote: I almost punched a dude because I heard him say, as we were leaving the theater, "I thought American Hustle was a lot better."]