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Favorite films

  • Brief Encounter
  • Wild Things
  • The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  • The Bad and the Beautiful

All
  • Friendship

    ★★★★

  • American Nightmare

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • The Ghost of Frankenstein

    ★★★½

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Ring

1998

★★★½ Watched

a film about the importance of preserving physical media and sharing it with others.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

★★★★★ Watched

biting and vitriolic and nasty as hell. like Godard if he spewed nothing but hot acid (who btw even manages to catch a stray from the ghoulish corporate shills in this.) there's no such thing as a post-apocalypse. we just droll on, ing by roadside graves for lost loved ones in front of billboards and hollowed out warehouses. a hopelessly cynical view of a rotted out civilization climbing over one another, paving over one another, begging to be put down…

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Friendship

2024

★★★★ Watched

made me very sad. idk. lit a cig and stared at my habit forming phone as soon as i got home.

American Nightmare

2024

Liked Watched

maybe Gone Girl was ultimately bad for the culture actually

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La Ricotta

1963

Liked Watched

playing the wrong music at Jesus’ crucifixion is a really good bit

Hulk

2003

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

generational curse, generational anger. transformative trauma owed to the sins of the father, getting stronger the more it’s fought, fed, or forgotten.

Ang Lee’s Hulk doesn’t hold back. it is a truly creative and inventive masterpiece, going above and beyond for a comic book adaptation, pushing the genre to what it could have/should have been: experimental, political, and profound. serving as a reminder of the responsibility and integrity of good science, an evergreen indictment of militant men coloring everything and…