Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bait 2012

  Watched 02 Sep 2023

  the phoebe tonkin report for my fellow tonkinheads: her character starts out as a rebellious shoplifter, repeatedly tells her cop father to "piss off" and, to my joy, gets a moment of selfless heroism where she wards off a shark by hitting it in the head with a meat tenderiser. amazing stuff, no notes.

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  Scream 1996

  Watched 29 Oct 2020

  not good. sidney and neve campbell innocent.

Popular reviews

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  The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2005

  ★ Rewatched 28 May 2016 1

  How this cinematic triumph didn't win every Academy Award, I'll never know.

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  Boy 2010

  ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Aug 2016 2

  "I don't remember you! You weren't there! You weren't there when he was born! You weren't there when she died! Where were you?"

  A touching exploration of the surprisingly close connection between childhood and adulthood. One may think they're wildly different. The former is typically perceived as a time of innocence, naivety and playfulness, while the latter as a period of harsher truths. But as our protagonist, Boy, awaits the return of his absent father, writer/director Taikia Waititi highlights the…