Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Opus 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  "I'm familiar with Darwin's theory, what does that have to do with you being a murderer?"
  
  okay, new hot take of the year. this was fantastic and so well-made and fun, why does everyone hate it so much?? I have heard a million comparisons to such films as "don't worry darling" and "the menu" and "glass onion" and the neverending trend of cult horror movies post-ari aster renaissance, but have you considered that this one is the first film of…

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  Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  captures something so hard to articulate about working at a movie theater, truly gets to the heart of so many little things that rarely are touched upon in any films I've seen surrounding cinemas. adored the balance of relaxing and haunting energy, absolutely gorgeous shot compositions of course, and that final shot, as iconic as it is, when it finally hit it was so cathartic and incredibly impactful. amazing film that will probably gut me inside out decades from now when I stop working in the movie theater business.

Popular reviews

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  Lady Snowblood 1973

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025 1

  meiko kaji was a demigod in human form in real life too. everyone aspires to her excellence, no one has ever done it like her ever again and EVER WILL.

  spilled blood hydrating the soil, a million nights molding over and growing wise beyond human comprehension absorbed in glances that pierce like needles, viscera in the garden. death and rebirth and familial blood transfusing over generations. karma at birth, a transference of vengeance on an altar.

  "You were not born as a human child, but an asura, one who gives her life to avenge another."

  (fuck you quentin tarantino)

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  Wolfwalkers 2020

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Dec 2020

  Animation in cinema is an amazing art form that is sadly underutilized in terms of its potential. We have experienced the majesty of Pride Rock in 1994’s “The Lion King”, we have transformed into a rat with a love for cooking in a Paris restaurant with 2007’s “Ratatouille”, and we have seen the fate of the world rest on the courage of our shoulders as a warrior in 1997’s “Princess Mononoke”.

  Animation has brought to life some of the greatest…