Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Phantom of the Paradise 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2024

  I’m gonna rave: I LOVE MOVIES. I LOVE ROCK, OPERA MUSICALS; I LOVE HORROR COMEDY; I LOVE TRAGIC, GOTHIC ROMANCE; I LOVE TWISTY, RELEVANT ADAPTATIONS; I LOVE BILL FINLEY, I LOVE JESSICA HARPER, I love BEEF, AND BY GOLLY, I LOVE DE PALMA

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  Wolf Man 2025

  ★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025 3

  Putting extreme effort into breaking the cycle of familial trauma and not wanting to be like your parent, but still bearing the effects of them so hard that it inevitably hurts your family... Like WOW. Whanell leans into that theme hard, and I appreciate it. Werewolves always make for fab allegories, regardless of messaging, and this along with aligning it to the original source material is pretty well done. Pretty. Otherwise…

  There’s issues with this script. The beginning flies by…

Recent reviews

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  The Truman Show 1998

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  one of those films you get drawn to right when you need it, I think. you’re guided to it. stumbled upon it again fortuitously; hadn’t seen it in like half a decade and wanted something familiar but not overly so. heck, I’d forgotten my GOAT Giamatti was in this! And when you get life altering news, you want something like that. Watching this is like running into somebody from high school that you know you had fond memories with but…

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  Notting Hill 1999

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  It’s hard to believe I haven’t watched a full movie in over a month. Actually painful. But it seems pretty fitting that a movie that I’ve rewatched probably the most in my life was the one I jumped back in with; this thing is the equivalent of a mug of chamomile to me.

Popular reviews

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  The Count of Monte Cristo 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  I love an action-adventure, let alone one with a twisty story to unravel, so this was right up my alley. The story had me hooked from the start, but glossed over many bits that left me wanting more; this leads me to believe I need to read the novel DESPERATELY.

  Our protagonist Dantes is loveable right from the start due to his character, but my god, Jim Caviezel is just not giving what he needs to give here! It’s a…

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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2024

  “You're not sacrificing yourself, as you say. You choose to sit on the sidelines because you're afraid! Your pride makes your head explode before you can even come up with a germ of an idea! You wake up at 40 needing someone to blame- YOU’RE the one to blame!”

  Where to place your trust and HOW you can come to trust a person is put on trial in this French, edge-of-your-seat drama. But one shouldn’t pigeonhole this epic unfurling of a family…