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Favorite films

  • Thief
  • Alien
  • Blow Out
  • GoodFellas

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  • The Delta Force

    ★★★

  • Look Who's Talking Now!

    ★½

  • The Surfer

    ★★★

  • Casablanca

    ★★★★★

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Fountain of Youth

2025

★★ Watched

Just really dull and lifeless, all spark and joy you want from this kind of globetrotting treasure hunt adventure film is severly lacking, from the atrocious exposition laden dialogue and smug sense of humor, the super perfunctory feeling action sequences, that are usually Guy Ritchie's forte mind you. A perfect example of the kind of slop we are increasingly being served by these streaming services, all this is is the approximation of something fun and enjoyable, done in the most…

Blink Twice

2024

★★½ Watched

both very promising in a directorial sense and fun and extremely undercooked and misguided. love the cast and Kravitz evokes a good mood and is solid with suspense and mystery though things get a bit sour with the messy third act. would be much easier to reccomend if it weren't for the completely tone deaf and misjudged ending. next time if Kravitz is going to direct, maybe she should leave the writing to someone else as most characters and the…

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Steel Magnolias

1989

★★★ Liked Watched

Every single time they kept saying Ouiser in this film it just reminded me of Weezer and it was somewhat distracting. and they say it a lot!

The Monkey

2025

★★½ Watched

wasn't really a huge fan of it to be honest. the overtly glib, absurdist and comedic tone didn't really work for me, some of the super graphic, abrupt, comically violent, over the top kills were kind of fun at first and the deaths/imagery was suitably gnarly. but after a certain point it felt like it only had one joke and it kept hitting it over and over and I didn't find it too funny so it got kind of old…

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Kundun

1997

★★★½ Liked 18

Marty! "Kundun", I liked it!

Psycho

1960

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I still can't believe how fucking good this is, even now. Alfred Hitchcock could have made a movie about paint drying and it still would have been suspenseful as fuck.