Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Night of the Creeps 1986

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  Always delighted by how well this silly movie holds up.

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  Transformers One 2024

  ★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Not good but I’ve seen much worse. One of the more fun “I didn’t need an origin story for these characters” movies. Steve Buscemi as Starscream is good casting. Chris Hemsworth as Optimus Prime is not.

Popular reviews

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  Star Trek: Section 31 2025

  ★ Watched 24 Jan 2025 2

  I stopped at 17 minutes. It was painfully bad.

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  Batman & Robin 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Sep 2022

  Yes, I give this movie four stars. Because it’s a well crafted piece of cinema with great acting, a stellar script, and inspiring cinematography? Not in the least. It is, by most measures of film, a terrible movie. Truly horrendously massively fucking garbage. 

  And yet …

  It is a truly marvelous accomplishment. 

  Not as a film. 

  This is not a film. 

  This is a toy commercial. This is an experience. This is an exercise in stylistic joy that transcends mere…