Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2025

  The final images will stick with me for a long while yet. What an incredible movie, technically. I was slack-jawed so many times, “How did they do that!?”

  Bram Stoker could never.

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2023 1

  This is my benchmark for perfection.

Popular reviews

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  Ex Machina 2015

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Aug 2020

  I love this film. Superb acting, wonderful atmosphere, a story that still kept me guessing by the very end. I have nothing but praise to heap on this wonderful movie.

  To highlight one aspect, Norway was a wonderful choice of setting. the forested, misty set emphasizes the natural components of the house of the future which in turn emphasizes the natural seeming Ava. Like Her (2013), Ex Machina doesn't imagine technology or the 'future' in hard lines of wire and…