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Favorite films

  • Deep Cover
  • To Live and Die in L.A.
  • Lost Highway
  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★½

  • Bring Her Back

    ★★★★½

  • A Life Less Ordinary

    ★★★★

  • Predator: Killer of Killers

    ★★★★

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Blue Velvet

1986

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“I had a dream… the world was dark because there weren't any robins, and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was just this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free, and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed like that love would be the only thing that would make any difference… and it did.” 

It’s been a few weeks since Lynch’s ing. On that day,…

Silence

2016

★★★★★ Liked Watched

“I suffered beside you. I was never silent.”

Having not yet seen all of the unrivaled Martin Scorsese’s feature films, Silence was one that intrigued me deeply for some time. The adaptation of Shûsaku Endô’s 1966 novel tells the story of two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries on a dangerous journey through 17th century Japan in search of their missing mentor. The grueling trip will inevitably put their faith to the test, and force them to reconcile with the many frustrations and…

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

“Myself, I feel very safe.”

Still need to check out The French Dispatch and Asteroid City but this was honestly top shelf Anderson for me, and so many millions of miles better than a lot of the somewhat underwhelmed reactions had me expecting. The man is going full gadgety espionage and I adored every goddamn second. 

Out of all his films, this maybe feels the most made for me. Zsa-zsa is so easily one of my favorite of Anderson’s protagonists.…

Bring Her Back

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

“What is that?”
”Just meat.”

Doesn’t live up to the delightful black humor and visceral chaos of Talk to Me, but nobody is doing this kind of horror like the Philippou Brothers. It’s a type that tends to annoy me to no end these days, yet they always find a way to make it connect with me. Everything with Hawkins’s character particularly hit home for me at points. It’s much more of a slow burn and it’s bleak in a…

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Smile 2

2024

4

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

Werewolf by Night

2022

★★★★½ Liked Watched

Spooky, gruesome, stylish, and just so unbelievably fucking rad. What an amazing debut for Michael Giacchino as a director, he did some phenomenal work here. And of course his haunting and bombastic score goes hard too. A warmly welcomed addition to this year’s spooky season.

Thanks to my boys Harry and Gus for watching w me