Favorite films

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  Scarface 1983

  ★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Didn't love this one, but I'm also not a 19 year-old frat boy with this poster on my dorm room wall.

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  Kwaidan 1964

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  At first, I was stalled by how slow discordant the pacing of this seemed. Something was off. The silence felt empty, rather than intentional, the pacing stilted, the actors speaking past one another. Then came the climax of the first segment -- canted angles, freeze frames, slow motion, discombobulated sound mismatched to action -- and later, jump cuts, hidden edits, matte paintings, kabuki, vibrant colors, illusions, mirages, ghosts.

  And I realized this film takes on the nightmare logic of sleep paralysis: not quite awake, not quite asleep, as the frightening uncanny closes in around you slowly, no escape.

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  Crimson Tide 1995

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  In a world where the U.S. government doesn't ally itself with the aggressive Russian regime ...

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ★ Watched 03 Aug 2024

  BARBIE for incels
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  U.S. film is dead

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