Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973

  ★★½ Rewatched 13 Feb 2025

  50th Anniversary Cut
  
  (This rating is for the 50th anniversary version only)

  I quite dislike Paul Seydor and Roger Spottiswoode. For too many years they’ve ridden around on Peckinpah’s coattails and they’ve finally come up with this, a shittier edit, claiming to be the directors true vision, and putting it in a package with the last true version by Peckinpah. I mean, come on, fuck off. Just a totally worse edit. Why even go about doing this. The only meaningful change is the removal of the extended prostitute sequence.

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  Akira 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Feb 2025

  One of the most interesting, important, and beautiful movies to me. It’s my second time seeing it in the theater, but this time it really touched me, I just hadn’t felt that ending like that.

Popular reviews

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025 1

  Episode 1.10

  We're watching the whole show in a watch-party today in one go. Quick and easy, in and out.

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  Reservoir Dogs 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 02 Nov 2024

  Alright, I’ll admit I judged this one a little too harshly. It’d been a few years since I saw it and I had started to write this off as his weakest work. How wrong I was. It’s an incredible script to debut with (incredible scripts becoming practically a trademark of his) and he was almost fully formed, showing a lot of the recognizable aspects of his style such as: fantastically entertaining dialogue, killer (typically 70s) soundtracks, gruesome violence, trunk shots,…