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Favorite films

  • Animal Instincts
  • Word of Mouth
  • Friend of the Family
  • Night Eyes 3

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  • Airplane!

    ★★★★

  • Picture This

    ★½

  • Virtual Combat

    ★★

  • Never Let Me Go

    ★★★★★

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  • I Like to Play Games

    I Like to Play Games

    ★★★★★

    As I’ve dug into the world of erotic thrillers and dramas I haven’t seen many films exploring kink and the headspace it creates or the people that thrive in kink. Sure, I’ve seen a few films that will affect the trappings of kink but nothing meaningful. Yes, once we get out of the DTV space we get films like Secretary, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants and Cronenberg’s Crash but because the DTV films were trying to cater as wide a crowd…

  • Animal Instincts 2

    Animal Instincts 2

    ★★★★★

    Gregory Dark and Shannon Whirry return to the suburban life of Joanna Cole in Animal Instincts II and it’s nothing short of amazing. Being relatively new in my exploration of erotic thrillers I’m just now getting used to the idea of frequent renaming and often minimal connection to prior efforts in a series. As a point of reference my first experience deliberately hunting down a sequel in this genre was Illicit Dreams 2. The first film is a beautiful, confessional…

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  • Airplane!

    Airplane!

    ★★★★

    Rewatched with friends

  • Picture This

    Picture This

    ★½

    Utterly charmless dreck that doesn’t understand that to have chemistry you have to put your leads on screen together. The bigger problem is when they are onscreen together they’re utterly lifeless. The stakes between the couple is delivered as painful expository monologues. 

    Simone Ashley’s character is painted as petulant, selfish adult child and that in and of itself isn’t a problem. Plenty of romcoms have those. The problem is it never gives us any reason to root for her. Her…

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  • The Sleep Experiment

    The Sleep Experiment

    ½

    You had one job. Steal from Reddit. You failed one job.

  • Mind Body Spirit

    Mind Body Spirit

    ★★★★

    This movie is playing with a lot! It deals with the way folks who have been suicidal are “handled”, generational trauma, the expectations we place on the dead, the gentrification of different beliefs for suburban bullshit, the viciousness required of influencers and does it with “please pay careful attention” sight lines, fabulous camerawork, and a sense of warmth and humor that doesn’t generally pervade film trading in these themes. Recommended!