Scrumbli

Scrumbli

Favorite films

Don’t forget to select your favorite films!

Recent activity

All
  • Bronson

    ★★★★

  • Dredd

    ★★★

  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    ★★★½

Recent reviews

More
  • Green Room

    Green Room

    ★★★½

    I’m not usually a fan of gore or extreme violence but this was really well done. Also Jean Luc Picard is a white supremacist.

  • Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    ★★★★½

    Another Lynch film I enjoyed way more the second time around. The section of the film before the transformation of Fred in the jail scene represents what actually happened. His paranoia, dysfunctional marriage, suspicions of cheating, and ultimately murder of his wife. I believe that the section after the transformation represents Fred creating (“I like to remember things my way, not necessarily how they happened”) a fantasy escape from his situation (impending execution) strung from pieces and remnants of his…

Popular reviews

More
  • Zathura: A Space Adventure

    Zathura: A Space Adventure

    ★★

    Saved by the horrifyingly existential implications of the twist.

  • Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    ★★½

    Weird comedy movie, a lot of it felt disjointed. The main character is an ethnographer who comes to the caucuses for research and gets wound up in some local scheme. I couldn’t tell how much of the movie was making jokes about real cultural occurrences in the caucuses and how much of it is just racist. Early on a marriage is being negotiated between some official and the uncle of a young woman, the price being sheep. There are Soviet 3 stooges in this movie however, so it is not all bad.

Following

5