Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Five Fingers of Death 1972

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Takes its time patiently setting up its character dynamics and motivations. Then it hits you with a bloody, cathartic, ELECTRIC final act

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  Premonitions Following an Evil Deed 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  Still perhaps my favorite thing Lynch has ever done.

Popular reviews

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  The Last Warning 1928

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2016

  The Last Warning is all cobwebs and dark hallways and twisted staircases and murder. In other words, it's all frosting and no cake, but it's a good sugar rush.

  I think a solid case could be made for Paul Leni as one of the great silent movie directors; his technical precision holding up even among the likes of Murnau, Eisenstein, Von Sternberg, Chaplin, or Dreyer. He knows exactly where to place a shot— if not for an emotional or logistical…

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  Gothic 1986

  ★★★½ Rewatched 03 Jan 2021 4

  This is maybe the most I’ve ever changed my mind about a film? I gave this 1½ stars on my original viewing three years ago, and I distinctly remember the bad taste it left in my mouth. I felt it was loud and convoluted, dancing around a great number of lofty themes without ever really digging into any of them. The sex and violence and bizarre imagery seemed there simply for shock value; it played more like a parody of…