Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Exorcist: Believer 2023

  ★★ Rewatched 11 Oct 2023 1

  If you were trying to demonstrate to someone how movies in the 2020s are soulless, cynical and over-produced affairs designed solely to further extract profits from a sleepwalking general population, and that by comparison the superficial, cocaine-fueled 1970s were a Renaissance of artistic integrity, you could do much worse than point to Exorcist: Resurrection or Exorcist: Resuscitation or Exorcist: Just Get Your Ass in the Seat Already or whatever the fuck this one is called.

  At the time, the original…

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jun 2023

  It was when I related completely to the grumpy old man trying to keep the multiverse from imploding, and not at all with the self-absorbed Zoomer literally just trying to get his dick wet, that I realized that I am now officially old. 

Popular reviews

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  X 2022

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Oct 2021

  Full disclosure, I was a 90’s comic book nerd in the era when literally no one could get enough Venom, except for the miserable old-timers that (perhaps rightly) saw the new symbiote obsession by the fans and execs alike as an overplayed novelty. Venom was my absolute favorite. His origin story infused him with a pathos unusual for comic book villains. His jubilant, often-ironic banter set him apart as a character that winked knowingly at the reader. And shit, he…