Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mystic River 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Sep 2023 6

  Tragedy of contingencies. Eastwood's definitive statement on violence, vengeance, and family. Possibly his greatest film.

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  Sick 2022

  Watched 14 Jul 2023

  I chatted about this expertly crafted pandemic slasher on Dead Body Bathtub.

  Listen here.

Popular reviews

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  Kaili Blues 2015

  Watched 10 Nov 2016 13

  As I was exiting the theater, I heard a man tell the woman beside him, "Y'know, this was directed by the guy who made Uncle Bowie."

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  Cursed 2005

  Rewatched 18 Aug 2020 5

  A tragically shattered movie. There are whispers of something I can imagine loving (the cast, the playful dealings with genre mythology, the settings), but the Weinsteins did untold damage to this thing.

  I want to just say #ReleaseTheCravenCut and be done with it, but as Kevin Williamson points out in his recent Shock Waves interview, this is an unusually egregious and complicated case of studio interference. Impositions made their way into Cursed from the very beginning.

  Williamson's original slasher-flavored script…