Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cybernetic Grandma 1963

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Another worthy entry in the "oppressive brutalist world that looks like an evil airport/ dentist's office" dystopia microgenre!

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  Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure 1977

  ★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  I like the part of this movie that's cute and innocent whimsy. I kinda miss this earnest style of kid's film, honestly; when done right, it can be SUPER charming. I don't like as much the "action" parts involving e.g. the Greedy or (especially) the Loony King. Yes, EXTREMELY impressive how fluid and alive the animation is for designs that insanely complex, but it gets exhausting to listen to and look at very quickly. Ultimately it ends up kinda dragging…

Popular reviews

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  MFKZ 2017

  ★½ Watched 05 Jul 2020

  You know western "adult animation"'s obsession to be as cool and violent and sexy as possible, even at the cost of character or, y'know, actually being adult (as in, mature, nuanced and well-written)? This is the apotheosis of just that. It's an incoherent mishmash/ ripoff of other movies the director thinks are "cool" [Namely: They Live, Akira, Tekkonkinkreet, The Matrix, the list goes on] without any of the substance or tightly-directed action that made them great. As a Gorillaz video,…

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  The Night Porter 1974

  ★½ Watched 21 Mar 2020

  "Most controversial picture of our time" my ass. It couldn't in a million years have been a serious drama with actual nuance; The sensationalist tagline and marketing made that more than clear. Why not brace myself for the other end instead, then? So i sat in await for a trashy, lurid and shocking, BDSM-tinged exploitation flick about two extremely depraved people. That could have been fun in its own morbid right... but what i got instead was what has to…