Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Dynamite 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2023

  blaxploitation is a genre that I have unfortunately seen too little of. outside of Truck Turner, I am not nearly as well-versed as I'd like to be. I'm starting to remedy that with movies like this one and Dolemite is My Name, though both of those are homages rather than contemporaneous genre output.

  either way, all of the ones I've seen rule, and Black Dynamite is no different. it hits all the tropes of early '70s America and Michael Jai…

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  Coherence 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  this movie had an interesting concept but didn't quite stick the landing for me as truly great largely because I disliked basically all the characters.

  it's a cool thought, years before Rick and Morty and the MCU and Everything Everywhere All at Once ushered in the era of the multiverse at large, to make a high concept existential horror film about such a phenomenon with a shoestring budget and let the philosophical premise do the talking.

  and I think in…

Popular reviews

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2023 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I found The Whale to be a surprisingly realistic, if heavy-handed depiction of grief and depression. I would not consider myself an Aronofsky fan generally, besides The Wrestler, and I expected this to be a 120-minute schlockfest, but it actually won me over by the end. here's why!

  first, I didn't feel as if the purpose of the film was for the viewer to judge Charlie based on his obesity. I don't agree with many viewers' reduction of the film's…

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Dec 2022 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  this is less of a review and more of a series of thoughts on the movie in its historical context of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923/the present). to be honest, I'm writing this over a month after seeing the movie and it still kinda haunts me. I have an interest in Irish history and I found it to contain a lot of depth in its reflection of the Civil War in a uniquely Irish way.

  at first, I tried to…