Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Furies 2019

  ★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Shite.

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  Roadgames 1981

  ★★★ Watched 10 Dec 2023

  Doesn't do much of interest, story wise, but it's shot so well that I didn't really care.

Popular reviews

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Aug 2020

  My fucking God, this film is electric. It's difficult to even articulate, and that in itself should say enough.

  Knockout central performances. Visceral direction. Musical. Poetic. Brimming with suspense.

  By the end, I felt like one of those sweat covered, blood spattered drum skins.

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  Tusk 2014

  ★★★ Watched 18 Aug 2023

  Largely, this is fucking insane. I don't fully understand why this is rated so low, though. I mean, I do get why but come on! Have some fun. It's dumb and it's supposed to be dumb.

  This thing also serves as a great parody of the depiction of serial killers' motives in cinema. It's often some grandiose, pseudo-psychological pathology that drives the antagonist's gruesome compulsions. Tusk serves as a reductio ad absurdum to the "this very particular set of circumstances…