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Favorite films

  • Porco Rosso
  • North by Northwest
  • Baby Face
  • Stop Making Sense

All
  • Nosferatu

    ★★★

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★½

  • Black Belt Jones

    ★★★½

  • Full Metal Jacket

    ★★★★★

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Nosferatu

2024

★★★ Watched

I thought this was just OK, I think I would have enjoyed it more seeing it in a theatre (obviously) and maybe seeing the theatrical release instead of the extended cut since the first hour definitely dragged. I love that it ends with Orlok being so distracted by a naked woman that he just loses track of time and forgets he has to be in the grave by cock crow, err...sunrise. Mostly though this movie left me deeply torn, because I desperately want a spin off series of Dafoe's character investigating supernatural occurrences but I never want to hear him say "cock crow" ever again.

Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

★★★½ Watched

I can’t believe they went to the expense of digitally de-aging Bam Margera to have him in this movie.

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Torch Song

1953

Watched

I honestly can’t rate this because clearly it is some kind of gay fever dream. So I’ll just drop in a block quote from TCM’s article on the production of Torch Song:

Between husbands at the time, Crawford appears to have had designs on some of her co-workers. She had insisted that former choreographer Charles Walters be assigned to direct, and, to ease her qualms about dancing on screen again, he had offered to play her dancing partner in the…

Maisie

1939

★★★ Watched

I love movies like this where the writer was clearly like, "Oh shit, I need another 12 minutes of material to fill this thing out...ooh I wonder if I could add a murder and wrap it up within the last 10 minutes of the movie?" Honestly the reason I watched this is because I have a friend with a daughter named Maisie and they have the poster for this hanging up in their house, and next time I go there…

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