Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Skatetown, U.S.A. 1979

  ★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I have mixed feelings on Skatetown USA, the earliest Swayze we have on our list, where he looks like the Masc Lesbian that broke your heart… roller blading.
  This is simultaneously the most exhausting, baffling and excellent thing we have watched. It is like getting slapped over and over and over again until you can accept that they’re are very high stakes to skating, who is the best skater? Why is this just like cats? Food hygiene is an all…

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  Waking Up in Reno 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Swayzathon has been saved by Patrick Swayze slurping down oysters like the big himbo he is x

Popular reviews

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  Witches 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2024

  I think this might be my top of the year, not joking. This is a visceral, cathartic, dense, heartbreaking and joyful piece of art. Witches is not only deeply rooted in history and fact, but also in love and empathy. It’s a transformative, tight, intimate work. 

  I went into this not expecting to be as moved as I was. And I’m not sure actually there is much I can say other than emphasising how powerful and brave the speakers are…

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  Madame Web 2024

  ★ Watched 21 Feb 2024 1

  I could go into this saying this is terrible. Which it is. But I do not want to do that.
  No guys.
  Madame Web is actually a rich, meta textual, post modernist, deconstructionist text. Maybe because you guys don’t have a film degree you wouldn’t understand the highly intelligent and bountiful film that is this one. 
  Are most of the villain’s lines done with terrible ADR? Yes? And? That’s a bold and artistic choice to alienate an audience member -…