Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Underwater 2020

  ★★ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  It's Pride Weekend in my city. I didn't feel like going out tonight, but I did watch Kristen Stewart in a movie she's too good for. We all celebrate in our own ways. Happy Pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈

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  Dracula 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  I don't know if I'll ever actually be scared by a Hammer film, but they are hall of famers at spookiness. Tombs and ominous fog and scared villagers and neon red blood and Victorian medical science and Christopher Lee making faces - this is Halloween.

Popular reviews

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  Your Name. 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2023

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

  Starts as a cute and fantastical bit of high school drama, ends as a mediation on Fukushima and Hiroshima, on collective trauma and collective guilt, on getting stuck in the past and moving on, on the people we lost and the people we left behind.

  Will you even remember their name?

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  Rhymes for Young Ghouls 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Apr 2023

  Early on in the film, Burner tries to spook some young children with a tale of a mill where Indigenous children are eaten by a zombie priest. The kids dismiss it as just a scary story, but Burner insists the story is real, and the mill is right up the road. "Why do you think so many kids go missing at St. D's?"

  Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a brutal movie - starting with its shocking opener, and then continuing…