Favorite films

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Jaws
  • Amadeus
  • Phantom Thread

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  • Beast

    ★★

  • Dark Shadows

    ★★

  • Byzantium

    ★★★★

  • Tropic Thunder

    ★★

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  • Magic Mike

    Magic Mike

    ★★½

    Only my boyfriend would finish a movie about male strippers and say: “Well that was sweet.”

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    ★★★

    More Hollywood films should be written by D&D players. Sure, they’d be cornier, but the off-the-walls creativity is also more fun, and somehow Hollywood movies have become less fun.

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  • Annette

    Annette

    ★★★★★

    Annette is a masturbatory display of performers performing performances, a revolving door of the symbiotic relationship between an audience and their entertainer. The 'Celebrity' is almost too meta to absorb at some moments, but there's just as much cause for audience self-reflection here. Annette aims an uncomfortable spotlight on the worshipful position an audience exists to put itself in: our insatiable desire to be made to laugh or to cry, or to be allowed a glimpse behind the veil of entertainment…

  • Armageddon

    Armageddon

    ★★★

    This cast is a 90s wet dream!

    I’ve never laughed so hard. I misguidedly ate this sensationalizing macho bullshit up as a teenager, and revisiting it now a decade later in a moment of knee-knocking nostalgia reveals a great deal about both my genetic makeup and my formative years... my gender is whatever sarcastic asshole wrote this stupid dialogue. It’s time I made my peace with it.


    NB Armageddon is a monster movie masquerading as an action flick. The asteroid has its own theme music and atmospheric vibe, and it spends the film trying to kill humans. That’s a grade A monster!