Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  A Haunting of Past Ink 2023

  Watched 01 Jun 2023

  This is my new short film. You can watch it here:

  youtu.be/16WiQPyBtT0

Recent reviews

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  Female Vampire 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2023

  Bloodline Theory of Class: The Movie

  Lesbian vampirism is family business...and trauma.

  Seen on my computer

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Dec 2023 2

  Best American release of the year.

  Seen on my computer

Popular reviews

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  Silent Night 2023

  ½ Watched 30 Nov 2023 14

  Weightless vile conservative dreck. John Woo goes on an aesthetic diet and indulges in a Hollywood parody of his own stylistic trademarks. His direction has stagnated, allowing itself to be overtaken by all of the worst recent trends in American action cinema. And his melodrama, which always struggled to find a place within an American context, ends up reinforcing the most reactionary suburban kitsch, as shallow and appalling as a cheap Hallmark card. Not that Woo's work hasn’t romanticized the…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Oct 2023

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

  The genocide of an indigenous population not as simple acts of petty racism but an entire system of economic, cultural and biological warfare, where the perpetrators show a perverse respect for your people, selling your demise through two-faced grins. The stench of death haunts every second of this film and never subsides. The greatest film director cameo ever, an authorial insertion that painfully understands the failings of its own storytelling, a web of corporate and political influences running cover for…