Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Two Heads Creek 2019

  ★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2024

  Dumb, Funny, stupid, offensive, self aware, surreal, dumb, gorey, and Aussie as.
  Nearly too dumb? But I laughed a fair bit and it didn’t overstay its welcome.

  Some cool shots, some snappy editing, some great music, and a murder boomerang.

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  The Forever Purge 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2024

  Brutal, unrelenting, violent, on the nose, action packed, and fun.

  Everything I expected.

  Solid action, a cool and intense purge montage, over the top characters, kind of bad acting, quick and dirty violence, and one solid long take tracking shot.

  Found the opening kind of.. disappointing. I didn’t really dig bringing the purge back via news exposition played over the top of the credits. Luckily I was back on board after about 40 minutes and I stayed there until the end.

Popular reviews

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  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Oct 2022

  Hooptober 9 - film #27
  I'm not smart enough to understand any of the subtext (a friend explained it to me afterwards and it sounded cool) so from a purely aesthetic point of view I thought this was great.

  Loved the make-up and the text-cards. Framing was great the entire time.

  The sets were amazing to the point where looking at them made me feel like I should go and work on my own art rather than watching movies. I…

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  The Phantom of the Opera 1925

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2022 2

  Hooptober 9 - film #11
  Cool sets, great pacing (it changes things up just when it needs to), a few amazing stunts, a truly frightening reveal (that atmosphere!), some epic shots of the opera in the 20's, but maybe most importantly the best-named villain I've encountered in a movie.

  Also I'm always a fan of movies getting the credit's out of the way early.

  This is the earliest made film I've seen.. and it felt a bit like a stage…