Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tarot 2024

  ★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  This shoululd've been released in the 90s and had the genre-awareness and cast that it deserves.

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  There Will Come Soft Rains 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Chilling, but to a lesser degree with the more-sobering fact that this wretched hypothetical would hardly surprise me as it unfolds at this point, tbfh.

  Oh to look at my weary cynicism some day and heave a sigh of relief at having moved on...or we just become this. Either way, there ain't much energy left, let alone hope. Ray would be so vindicated in his disappointed glares and ever-mounting blood-pressure.

  Cliche to call it prescient, but ain't it though?

Popular reviews

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  ½ Watched 09 Oct 2024

  Eh... doesn't and will never feel as well-intentioned and loose as y'all want it to be. They're accessorising with nostlagia, (and i'm into it too!), but it also is a very, VERY stupid plot-point of "how much can we shoot each other" that doesn't even make the big points it could. There is so much that could've been said with a trickster who can ultimately relate to quite a lot more than just the vulnerabilities of invulnerability So much that,…

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2024

  Yep. I'm undoubtedly still a complete and unrepentant sucker for *gestures vaguely at New England, boarding schools, Dead Poet's Society-ass copycats, tricksters, uncomfortably familiar character struggles, cosy seasonal films, comfortably academic and sturdy set-design, et. cetera, certe in aeternum*

  I do wish some of the earlier cast members were used either with more reservation OR with more presence and time on-screen; as it stands, their absence is disappointing due to their time present being layered, realistic, and narratively fecund and…