Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Murphy's Law 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 28 May 2023

  charles bronson's murphy could be a character out of blade runner-adjacent cyberpunk neonoir, divorced, washes his face with spit water, a sad and off-putting incel with a fixation on homosexual scenarios involving basically everyone he runs into. he gets framed and immediately breaks out of jail with a helicopter to soar over a perpetual nighttime cityscape, later menaced by a terminatoresque killer; tbh the part that resonates with me is her story: carrie snodgress reprising her crazy bettina stare for…

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  Monster a Go-Go 1965

  ★★★ Watched 27 May 2023 1

  pizzolattonian

Popular reviews

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  The Love Witch 2016

  ★½ Rewatched 21 Mar 2021 3

  Yeah, okay, Anna Biller.

  I'll stand by the opinion that this is mostly interesting because of its ability to elude easy classification. Everything in this film seems to point toward something subversive going on, but if you read Biller's own commentary, it becomes apparent this is exactly what it seems at first glance: an earnest throwback to sixties cinema that is so exacting it even replicates the era's problems with gender essentialism. Biller doesn't subvert any of this because she…

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  Dave Chappelle: The Closer 2021

  Added 1

  the internet grants us all the privilege of more or less being taken at face value. I can use whatever username I want and refer to myself the way I feel is real and people will, for the most part, go with it. it's harder irl to find the kind of acceptance I get online because my transness is the one of the first things people see. but at least then peoples' lack of acceptance is the first thing I…