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Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Chungking Express

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  • Sex

    ★★★★

  • Presence

    ★★★½

  • The Harder They Come

    ★★★★

  • I Saw What You Did

    ★★½

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  • Eaten Alive

    Eaten Alive

    ★★½

    Hooptober XI! Number 31/31.

    …And 1 Tobe Hooper Film

    A psychotic redneck hotel owne, killing his guests for fun and feeding them to his pet killer croc. A trippy soundtrack with a mix of country songs and psychedelic keyboard sounds. Gratuitous nudity.

    All this should make for one hell of an ending to Hooptober XI, but it somehow manages to be kind of boring. One or two of the kills are pretty entertaining, but it's too repetitive, and much of…

  • Kill List

    Kill List

    ★★★★

    Hooptober XI! Number 30/31.

    1 film from 2011

    Ben Wheatley is quite an interesting filmmaker, and I particularly enjoy his horror stuff. Okay, A Field in England was a bit too strange even for me (at least at the time I watched it), but I loved 2021's In the Earth more than most people did.

    Kill List starts out as a dysfunctional family drama, but quickly turns into a hitman thriller, before suddenly turning into something entirely different towards the…

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  • Band of Brothers

    Band of Brothers

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Adam's Apples

    Adam's Apples

    ★★★★

    This Danish dark comedy really surprised me, mostly because of how well it managed to balance the lighthearted nonsense and the utter darkness in the whacky story. The characters are way out there, but somehow feel real, I suppose because of the great acting, Mads Mikkelsen most notably.

    Adam's Apples is a very entertaining film, with a great plot and hilarious dialogue. Sometimes very surreal, it has a good message despite the main characters being a neo-nazi, a delusional religious…