Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Wolf and the Lion 2021

  ★ Watched 02 Feb 2022 1

  What I can only assume Dreamer did to that swat team off screen:

  youtu.be/cvlk_OLoLT0

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  FX's A Christmas Carol 2019

  ★ Watched 20 Dec 2019 18

  If at the end of your adaptation of A Christmas Carol your audience feels depressed and helpless you clearly haven’t made an effective version of this story, I’d dare say you don’t understand what this story is actually about. 

  
  Here they have pushed Scrooge to a new level of nasty that makes him unredeemable. Knight claims that his goal was to “make us understand why Scrooge is Scrooge” and yet he spends more than half of the film blaming the woes…

Recent reviews

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  Fire Cheese 1941

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  I have had the vague ring of this short stuck in my head for years. It was on a VHS I remember watching a lot when I was no more than five and I’ve been trying to hunt it down ever since.

  After finally finding it… this was fine.

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  Darby O'Gill and the Little People 1959

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  Even knowing a lot of this was forced perspective I’m still stuck scratching my head trying to figure out how they did some of this.

Popular reviews

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  The Little Drummer Boy Book II 1976

  ★★ Watched 03 Dec 2022

  Ah yes this drum made by some random asshole will certainly replace the drum given to Aaron by his dead father.

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  Men 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 20 May 2022

  The scariest part of this movie is all the film bros that will mansplain what this film means to unsuspecting women.