Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Zodiac 2007

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 14 Mar 2025

  Director’s cut 🔪

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  Hercules 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Mar 2025

  So much more iconic than remembered. Certain sequences (young Hercules singing “Go the Distance,” the climactic thread of life scene) gobsmacked me. Megara: hot. There’s a lot to love here.

Popular reviews

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  Dark Days 2000

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2013

  It's hard to think of another doc that has the unfettered access AND beautiful cinematography that Dark Days achieves. Also, what a memorable, charming bunch of people to spend an hour-and-a-half with. Marc Singer: Make more movies, please.

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  The Host 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2014 4

  The Host probably plays to viewers many different ways. Some might be more affected by the existential dread and fear generated by its deformed, radioactive sea monster. Others may take more from its heartwarming, and ultimately tragic, examination of the archetypal South Korean family. I laughed too hard at its ramming of U.S. foreign policy, and governmental and media responses at-large to disasters. When the Park family hysterically weeps for their kidnapped daughter, Hyun-seo, I was crying with joy.

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