Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dune 2021

  Rewatched 08 Mar 2024

  christ this shit is so boring

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  Grand Hotel 1932

  Watched 17 Sep 2023

  typically i can handle one giant honey-glazed ham per movie. but if you brought a mugging geiger counter onto this set, the reader would go off the charts. garbo especially. i mean what is she doing. her performance comes off even worse since the chemistry between john barrymore and joan is ELECTRIC. i'm not familiar with goulding but it's my understanding he just tried to stay out of the movie star's way and let them do their thing, but maybe he could have given out a few notes to garbo and beery... (i am a fan of lionel barrymore's mugging sorry)

Popular reviews

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  Artists and Models 1955

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2019

  features everything that is missing from most major Hollywood movies today: brilliant use of color, a zany attitude, pretty much no regard for plot/exposition of any kind, visual inventiveness, and most importantly, everyone is desperately horny. Jerry Lewis' (and surprisingly Shirley MacLaine's) facial contortions are worth it alone.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  Watched 09 Aug 2023

  this movie gave me a headache. the pace is just so relentless. reminded me of last year's elvis. can't you take a breather at some point? i think there's a scene in the bad and the beautiful about this. anyway this has some interesting impressionistic flourishes albeit mostly cribbed from twin peaks the return's episode 8, but that's fine since that's a great piece to steal from. shooting on film is nice and it's cool that nolan fights for it…