Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cocaine Bear 2023

  Watched 22 Mar 2023

  Exactly what I was expecting. Goofy, fun and gory.

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  Watched 22 Mar 2023

  Pretty solid. And Bautista is perfect here. I just wish they hadn’t played this quite so straight. I wish there had been more ambiguity about what was happening and with the ending.

Popular reviews

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  Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold 2017

  Watched 27 Oct 2017 2

  Is it terrible that I just want to quit my job, drop out of school and spend my days tracking down and reading everything Joan Didion ever wrote?

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  Edge of the Knife 2018

  Watched 03 Oct 2018

  We are so damn privileged when First Nations storytellers opt to share their stories outside of their communities. These are the stories we tried to kill, to silence. But they are as resilient as their tellers. In the intro to the film, directors Edenshaw and Haig-Brown explained that the wildman story was often told at the beginning of a potlatch. Someone transgresses, doesn’t follow protocol. A traumatic event ensues and the man literally goes wild with guilt and grief. His…