Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  “Go muddy their carpets”

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  DAN DA DAN: First Encounter 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Sep 2024

  Fast paced, wild, hilarious, crazy. 

  First 3 episodes in a film format. One of the fastest growing hit that Shonen Jump has at the moment. If you don’t read the manga and plan to watch the anime, you are in for quite a wild ride.

Popular reviews

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  Insidious: The Red Door 2023

  ★ Rewatched 07 Jul 2023

  The Insidious franchise has finally met rock bottom. After a series of lukewarm installments after the classic original, here we are with the fifth installment that does anything but innovative or creative ideas. This film is painfully telegraphed that any casual horror fans can see the set ups as we come crashing to the credits. 

  This movie is way too short as the plot jumps storytelling between father and son. 9 years after we last saw them they are randomly…

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  Grave of the Fireflies 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Sep 2024

  *Rewatch due to Netflix acquiring the streaming rights*

  This is easily one of the best war/anti-war films we have across any type of entertainment medium. Grave is a heart-wrenching, heart-warming beautifully adapted short story of a prideful naval son and his toddler sister as they try to navigate the harsh reality of WWII. This is arguably the best Studio Ghibli film and my favorite not done by Miyazaki. Cannot stress it enough of how much of a “must watch” this…