Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sansho the Bailiff 1954

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2023

  This movie is not as devastating as Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies, but still somewhere around there on the top 10 most miserable movies (at least for me).

  I had this experience before with some movies, when more or less all is lost, what is even left to live for? That's obviously a very dark question to ask, but for a movie like this, I just ended up losing hope towards the middle, even if a lot happened the second half.

  The last 10-15 minutes really hit me hard and I wish there could have been more slow, thoughtful moments like that.

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  Blade II 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2023

  Blade II goes the Aliens route and team blade up with a crew of badass vampires to fight an even bigger threat.

  Well, the introduction of the crew is probably when they're most cool. The rest of the movie they're just a bit lame. And I decided to watch this when I found out that Donnie Yen was part of it. But turns out he's barely in it. He did choreograph the fight scenes, so that's always something.

  Wesley Snipes…

Popular reviews

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  Mank 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2020

  Fincher's Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

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  You Won't Be Alone 2022

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2023

  A very slow folk "horror" slasher where none of the kills really come come as a surprise at all.

  The concept of witches as shapshifters is interesting and could turn into an exciting film. However, the approach this one takes with bully-witch and the other one ending up as the village idiot multiple times becomes boring quickly.

  It's like The VVitch meets Under the Skin filmed like a Malick drama. In other words, not for me.