Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Drifting Clouds 1996

  Watched 28 Mar 2022

  Wes Anderson but without the privilege

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  Encanto 2021

  ½ Watched 09 Jan 2022

  They really said I know it’s a bit late and we’ve never been progressive or socially insightful but here’s a family who are not white and no one is bad just misunderstood. The society of spectacle lives on!

  
  Edit: how many times are consumers going to consume the same formula before developing some artistic taste? Just a thought.

Popular reviews

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  Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

  ½ Watched 11 Jan 2022

  We are living in the end time$

  
  Edit: more white men saving the world

  
  Edit 2: mental note: buy Pepsi, use Ups, watch TikTok 

  
  Edit 3: We are living in the end time$

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  Drunken Angel 1948

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jul 2021

  Instead of depicting Japan rising from the ashes of defeat, Kurosawa takes a contrasting approach. He sees post-war Japan as divided, as embodied by the rational doctor and the brash might of the young Yakuza, whose power structure is just as polluted by exploitation and amorality as the real world social and political infrastructures they inhabit.

  In his book: Embracing Defeat, Historian John Dower refers to Japanese post-war mood as kyodatsu, a Japanese word for the collective depression which characterised the…