Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Home Base 2002

  ½ Watched 03 Oct 2023

  i watched this along with some folks in the hit factory discord. you should not watch it ever. it is awful.

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  Saw II 2005

  ★ Rewatched 03 Oct 2023

  ugly, featureless, and without a single intriguing trap/kill.
  it is genuinely funny, though, that jigsaw's criteria for who should be punished runs the gamut from "drug addict" to "being a snitch".
  have seen this one a few times. looking forward to never watching it again.

Popular reviews

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  Bottoms 2023

  ★½ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  recently pivoted to a "watches only good stuff" guy and have been thriving under that identity for the past couple weeks. with such a wonderful streak of great movies, i decided to gamble on the new comedy from director wunderkind emma seligman, whose Shiva Baby i found enjoyable enough, even as it ended right as things started to get interesting for its characters. nobody to blame but myself here. the streak is over at long last. nothing gold can stay.…

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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Sep 2023 1

  the greatest concert film ever made, and yet...far more a cinematic experience than a musical one. demme's camera is always targeting the human emotion, the minor facial tics, the small moments of communion between players. it's the stuff of pure cinema, and a means of experiencing the talking heads that no live show could ever grant you. at once about the magical act of solidarity that producing music can be and all the individual experiences of making notes, moving bodies, hitting marks that each performer must make alone in order to produce the coherent whole.
  absolutely wondrous in imax.