Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Gaga: Five Foot Two 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2022

  accidental flop era doc trying to rescue gaga from the damnation of a crowdsourced npd diagnosis

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  Magnificent Obsession 1954

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2024

  forgive me for speaking ill of the dead but there’s something eerily on the nose abt rock hudson playing a character who lies abt his identity, gives ppl large sums of money, and demands they keep quiet

Recent reviews

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  Show Boat 1936

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  interesting that at the same time minnelli was innovating revues on broadway by integrating loose narratives through the performances, whale was doing the same with film musicals. kindred spirits!

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  Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  if this were available on streaming it’d be a new comfort watch

Popular reviews

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  Tea and Sympathy 1956

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  introducing this next week—wednesday the 19th at 8—for queer cinema club at the paradise in toronto, tickets here!

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2024

  1. Switch out Coralie Fargeat’s name in the credits with Ryan Murphy’s and I’d believe it. Fargeat has a similar allusive instinct to Murphy. They reference the same writer/directors (Lynch, Kubrick, Mankiewicz, Wilde, Hitchcock—surprisingly very little Cronenberg influence here) merely as intertextual commentary (or just for superficial amusement/manufactured legitimacy) as opposed to synthesizing a unique syntax from those references. This approach is most evident in the third act. When the Vertigo score plays over Monstro ElisaSue painting her face, we’re…