Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 1991

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Listen, I here you... and yet it's still 88 minutes of impressively elaborate and tangible Jim Henson creature shop puppets doing Golden Harvest Hong Kong stunt fighting. At one point they do it in the middle of a Vanilla Ice concert. Sue me! It's also shot on film in NYC where everyone is enjoying the BIG SLICE, David Warner is running around with canisters of GREEN SLIME, and the tone of this one is closer to the cartoon I watched…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025 3

  Pretty easy to see how this material appealed to a guy who has made a number of dystopia/creature films that build well-designed thriller sequences and strange, often grotesquely textured world-building detail around broad political and class satires about little guys resisting the gruesome bureaucratic machinery that organizes their lives. And for the most part Bong Joon-ho makes the leap to mainstream Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster with just enough of his weird quirks and fixations for this to be perfectly enjoyable. I…

Popular reviews

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  The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Feb 2015 5

  Is it possible to frame an entire feature film and hang it on your wall? Have we discovered how to do this? Asking for a friend.

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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Dec 2019 12

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