Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Crash 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 09 May 2023

  maybe i’m just extremely impressionable, but this movie made me want to smoke a bunch of cigarettes & get in a fatal car crash

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  Come and See 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Dec 2022

  sorry, i just got back from the "things to say about this movie" store and they were all out of the insightful stuff. these were the only two items they had left on the shelf:

  1. going apeshit when the white stork shows up, like the baying hordes at an avengers screening whenever captain america appears for the first time. "i remember that feller!" i shout, feverishly slapping my little paws together, "from the board game wingspan! i love that…

Recent reviews

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  Zero Patience 1993

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  i'll be writing a history paper on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. haven't quite pinned down the focus yet, but i still have like a week to figure it out. popular discourses about AIDS? the emergence of the virus in canadian cities, an underexplored topic within canadian historiography generally? the dearth of historical narratives about HIV-affected women, intravenous drug users, people in the global south? AIDS service organizations and their sometimes-amicable-often-strained relationships with grassroots activist groups? idk, i'll probably touch on all…

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  Seven Veils 2023

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  very enchanting use of shadow. we love to see a movie that insists on rearticulating its underlying dramatic tensions and character motivations so often and so hamfistedly that it becomes legitimately comical. wow. everything truly is just a performance for Father. husband is a surrogate Father and i must murder and then kiss him. “you’re not just sucking him off; you’re consuming his entire body.” fuck yeah dude

Popular reviews

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  Universal Language 2024

  Watched 23 Jan 2025

  “i like to say that iranian cinema emerged from a thousand years of poetry and winnipeg cinema emerged from fifty years of kern hill furniture commercials” — matthew rankin, during tonight’s post-screening discussion.

  hooting and hollering every time a winnipeg landmark appears onscreen as the visual gag accompanying a joke about how everyone who lives here is accustomed to patiently enduring an unremitting torrent of indignity and despair. i truly could never leave this place. there is such beauty here 🥲

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  b.longing 2024

  Watched 10 Nov 2024 3

  a contemplation of the possibility of “home” and “belonging” within the settler-colonial imposition of winnipeg, canada & the ways that these concepts can be achieved beautifully or polluted. but fear not — its short runtime and formal abstraction mean that it isn’t as didactic as my description in the previous sentence makes it sound.

  but who cares about any of that. the main thing to note here is that I AM IN THIS MOVIE & IT WON AN AWARD (the audience choice award of the Gimme Some Truth: Gimme 10 in 30! Documentary Challenge). everyone, say “congrats midge” to me, please