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Favorite films

  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Perfect Blue

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  • Love, Death & Robots: Bad Travelling

  • Love, Death & Robots: Zima Blue

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    ★★★★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★★

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  • The Matrix Resurrections

    The Matrix Resurrections

    ★★★★★

    “I wish you would fucking stop calling me that. I hate that name.”

    Lana Wachowski is back, and this time she isn’t pulling any fucking punches.

    The Matrix Resurrections is everything I could have possibly dreamed of, and more. I dreaded the possibility that it would play up familiarity with the first film, and nearly ignore Reloaded and Revolutions. What we got couldn’t be further from that. Resurrections is a continuation of the greatest love story ever told, and a…

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★★★

    **TRIGGER WARNING: PANIC ATTACKS, SUICIDE, SELF-HARM**

    On March 26th, 2020, I went out for a jog. I was alone. I jogged from my childhood house all the way up to my childhood middle school and back— about a mile both ways. The day before, I had moved out of my dorm forcibly as a result of the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic. Am I using that word right? “Burgeoning?” I just looked it up, and it seems right. It seems appropriate. “Burgeoning.”…

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  • Boys Don't Cry

    Boys Don't Cry

    ★★

    Maybe don’t deadname the person your movie is based off of in the credits? Ever think about that?

  • Boat Leaving the Port

    Boat Leaving the Port

    damn that boat really left that port