Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Oddly humorous. Pitch black of course. The news people provide the perfect inane banter while Cronenberg sucks on a Desert Eagle. This feels like a perfectly normal livestream in this day and age.

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  Nike Air 180 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I always suspected that Nike’s production line was suspect.

Popular reviews

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  Venus on the Half-Shell 1975

  ★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2023

  French accent: “Le penis”

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  Tokyo Blood 1993

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Aug 2021

  A collection of 4 short stories, each perfectly capturing the tropes and diff moods of Ishii’s films.

  In ‘Street Noise’ we get a dose of urban alienation and clenched fists scored by air conditioner hum and errr, street noise. Gorgeous! Would have loved a full length feature of this.

  ‘Bicycle’ is a bittersweet meeting of two young women zooming around Tokyo on a teeny deep thoughts bike trip.

  In ‘Hole’ we get an absurdist metaphor for the trappings of working…