Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hypnotic 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 16 May 2023

  Truly stupid and increasingly entertaining the further it goes.  Ben Affleck would have starred in this twenty years ago but wouldn’t have been able to give the performance he does now.  Too early for 00s camp?

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  Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 May 2023

  Francis Ford Coppola’s Roger Corman’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Popular reviews

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  mother! 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Sep 2017 7

  I am reluctant to talk about this film too much.  Darren Aronofsky created something unholy here.  It feels wrong to air this film so callously.  He made a film about creation.  In any form.  You can apply it to whatever form of creation you wish.  Creation, art, God, nature.  And the cost.

  I am honestly stunned by the unnerving honesty on display in this film.  It became pretty clear pretty early on with Javier Bardem's character that Aronofsky had decided…

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2016 11

  A passionate love letter to passion and love. I don't have a lot here, La La Land is lovely and pristine and a lot more real than I ever expected.

  A love story between two people, one in love with performing and one in love with jazz, although it's not immediately clear the true parameters of this love story.

  I was pretty deeply surprised by where this went in its arc and follow through concerning the logical progressions for what…