Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  The movement and framing is a dance. Amazing amazing.

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  Trap 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  A Shyamalan Bridge Too Far. 

  All the carefully threaded tension of the trap evaporates once they leave the concert. The rest of the movie feels like the lucid dreams you get when you go back to sleep after turning off your alarm. Or the feeling of small talking with the same person for too long at a social event. 

  Reminded me of a small but fun Daniel Radcliffe movie (Radcliffe- also small but fun coincidently) about a murder planned at an orchestra concert which commits to the spatially restricted Hitchcocking pressure cooker. Baby steps. Baby steps.

Popular reviews

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  The Anonymous Venetian 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2022

  For the love of God, someone please walk down the aisle to this soundtrack

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  Anyone But You 2023

  ½ Watched 21 Jan 2024

  My theory - the studios are test driving ai screenwriting. Step one run a bunch of rom coms through an ai generator, step two attach two of the trendiest actors, step three hype up the pr, step four create buzz on social media and finally see if people are so starved for (or glutted on) entertainment that they actually buy it. 

  There is no other explanation. Never have I ever been more convinced that a movie was written by ai.…