Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Despite the protagonist’s journey ending in a fantastical sea voyage, BEAU IS AFRAID (2023) is not tiki adjacent.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Despite one background coffeehouse hipster in a Hawaiian shirt, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (2024) is not tiki adjacent.

Popular reviews

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  Back to the Beach 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2022

  With its saturated camp production, Daddy O’s tiki bar, prominent Tiki Bob mug, Dick Dale’s Brian May wig, Harbor Master Don Adams’s Polynesian wet bar, giant beach tikis, and Pee Wee’s Surfin’ Bird, BACK TO THE BEACH (1987) is greatly tiki adjacent.

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  The Searchers 1956

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2016

  Always on the list of greats. Haven't seen too many westerns so who knows. Enjoyable but very much of its time, I guess.