Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Party Girl 1995

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  This was literally me at C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University 

  Fun ethnography of NYC nightlife c. 1995

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  Waiting for Guffman 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Mr. G you will never be Corky

Popular reviews

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  South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID 2021

  ★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2023

  Watched this on Tiktok in 30 different parts with Subway Surfers playing on the bottom half of the screen. Would not want it any other way.

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  Akira 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2025

  I definitely missed a lot of the socio-political subtext when I watched it for the first time in high school.

  The film was released during the height of the Japanese bubble, pre-92 collapse. I can only imagine the huuuge changes that the post-war era ushered into the country probably leaving so many people feeling left behind or swept away by the very promises of economic development. 

  So tying this back to the movie: you achieve progress, but at what cost?…

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