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The overly positive one.

Favorite films

  • Ponyo
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Mandy
  • When Black Birds Fly

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  • Wolf Man

  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★½

  • Megalopolis

    ★★★

  • The Lighthouse

    ★★★★★

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  • Wolf Man

    Wolf Man

    Wolf Man is not worth your time.

    Full disclosure, though; I was absolutely hooked on this for the first, like, 15 minutes? However long they spend in the woods before the timeskip, I was glued to the screen. What I was witnessing was a captivating, unnerving, and beautiful film about childhood trauma and the fear of the unknown. Excellent sound design, fantastic locations and camerawork, and some pretty solid acting too; considering the director's previous work, Invisible Man and Upgrade,…

  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead

    ★★★★½

    IN HEAVEN, EVERYTHING IS FINE.

    A work of pure surrealism that has the feeling of a dream plucked like a crystalline flower from the mind. An unending sleep paralysis that twists our modern, industrial world into an unforgiving hellscape that reduces a man to his most primal instinct. A haunting depiction of choice paralysis and what happens when you truly lose control of a situation. A movie about being a working man. A story about being a father.

    Eraserhead is…

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  • Zombie Land SAGA

    Zombie Land SAGA

    ★★★★½

    I'M GONNA BE THE GIRL I WANT TO BE!

    This is an unfortunately very short little idol anime... about zombies... with a canonically transgender character... and basically no sexism despite most of the cast being female... shit, am I dreaming? This sounds like the most perfect anime ever devised! While it's not COMPLETELY perfect, it's definitely super solid, and deserves recognition for all the things that it does right.

    Story: 8 / 10
    Characters: Perfection
    Visuals: 7 / 10
    Music:…

  • 9

    9

    ★★★★

    Really plays off that apocalyptic feeling without any dialogue which is so impressive! Watched it through the special features on the bluray for the feature version.