Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  My Neighbor Totoro 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jul 2024

  I’m sick

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  Beyond Dream's Door 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Jul 2024

  What if your forgotten dreams punished you with waking nightmares? Like Deodato bringing HG Lewis NRG to a Clive Barker adaptation — but it’s a bunch of OSU students throwing every correct genre instinct at the screen and seeing what sticks. Midwest best!!! Astonishing what this crew accomplishes with a microbudget and a corny supernatural horror high concept. Edited with urgency and told with stylish visual grammar that informs its dream logic, this surreal 16mm horror evades the aimless undertow…

Popular reviews

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2022 8

  The The Dark Knight of Batman movies. Whole lotta red GoPro Batman begins vs die underlit Godzilla (2014) true crime miniseries Batman returns, looking pretty (pretty UGLY!) and cool and tasteful, enjoyable as a KoЯny pseudo-Gothic faux-epic romp and increasingly compromised as its fussy procedural plot approaches climax or commentary (∞chan, Biden, Katrina). At least Nolan’s dumbass literal spectacle was so committed to bootlicking 007ism that it didn’t have to contort itself into a heroic pose, whereas here Reeves forcefeeds us…

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2021

  Edit: Review Reloaded

  Personally, I LOVE having your cake and eating it too. I love cake!!!! I love movies!!!! I promise I’m not opposed to the 3.0+1.0 levels of manic meta storytelling (that was cute) or the “Matriculated�� future (that’s what I’d guessed) or the coverage-choreography (okay, maybe it looks a little ugly), it’s just that the punches don’t land meaningfully for me. It doesn’t break a sweat. I just don’t think it can pull off this script when the action looks…

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