Favorite films

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Feb 2023

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

  such a beautiful thing to come back to as my taste evolves and changes, and also as I get older - this is one of the constants, an elemental work following a spiritual dance of men at work which never feels anything less than profoundly exciting and moving. it is intimate and lonely in a kind of cosmic way throughout, capturing the deepest yearning we can feel as it fights and loses to our kind of fatalistic desires ("all I've…

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  TRON: Legacy 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2022 3

  I remember going to see this with my Dad on my winter break in 2010. He lived a few hours away from my Mom, so I didn't get to see him that often. I'd call him every couple of weeks, and in the month or so leading up to the release of this, I must've talked his ear off about it, because when he picked me up that evening, we drove straight to the theater and not home. I was…

Recent reviews

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  The Birds 1963

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Mar 2023

  "really, let's be logical about this."
  a disorienting, deranged psychosexual masterpiece...I love this sick little movie so much. can't wait for the day I program a double feature of it with Sully.

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  The Lottery 1969

  Watched 28 Mar 2023

  sloppily constructed, nothing is being added with these creative choices except boredom - a visual plot delivery machine with all of the chilling feeling imbued by the text sapped away. just read the short story, which you can probably do in less time!

Popular reviews

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  RRR 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2022 4

  A MOVIE LARGELY ABOUT LOVING YOUR BRO AND GOING BEAST MODE THROUGH THICK AND THIN. EVERYONE ELSE DROPPING THIS YEAR CAN PACK IT UP. YOU ARE NOT TOPPING THIS

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  Zoolander 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Jun 2021 3

  "One of my heroes, I guess, would be Sting. I don't listen to any of his music, but I really respect that he's making it."

  "I can Derelick my own balls, thank you."

  "What is this? A center for ants??"

  "So I became...bulimic."
  "...you mean you can READ MINDS???"

  "They're IN the computer???"

  And a million others that broke my ribs.
  Masterpiece?
  Masterpiece.