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Favorite films

  • Death Proof
  • Sleepaway Camp
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Cabin in the Woods

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  • Michael Clayton

    ★★★

  • Chasing Amy

    ★★

  • Mallrats

    ★★★

  • Clerks

    ★★★

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Never tell a smart girl she’s ugly.

Nosferatu

2024

★★★ Watched

Is “beautiful to look at” the ideal form of a movie? Should we not rank how good you are at transferring the characters’ emotions onto the audience and having something interesting to say above vibes and aesthetic? Is Nosferatu the final boss of -core culture?

Lily Rose-Depp and Nicholas Hoult do fine work here. Willem Dafoe is the only one trying to inject a little levity into this movie, to varying effect. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is doing a bad impression of an…

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Michael Clayton

2007

★★★ Liked Watched

Michael Clayton was a nice little mid-budget thriller. Tilda Swinton did so much with the little screen time she had. Not my favorite performance of hers, but definitely the best in this movie, just above Tom Wilkinson.

Clooney was… Clooney. He’s better in comedic roles. I don’t think he was bad, I just think a better, less movie star-faced actor would’ve done better.

You can really tell with Michael Clayton and Andor that Gilroy is a starry-eyed student of 1970s film.

Chasing Amy

1997

★★ Liked Watched

failed New Jersey polycule

I have thoughts about this but not enough coherent ones at the moment, so here are two posts I made about it. 

I’ve been on a Journey with my sexuality and fallen into limerence with a dude who wasn’t right for me because searching for someone who was right for me was too scary, so I somehow relate to both Alyssa and Holden.

Banky sucks but Holden disgusts me more because he’s just pretending to himself…

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Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This rips so fucking hard. Coogler’s love for the blues and roots, for Black folks and community, for the ancestors, is all so stunningly portrayed here.

I was not expecting to see 1930s American South Chinese characters with legit Southern accents, either. So cool!

Clerks

1994

★★★ Liked Rewatched

Clerks is not a good movie, but I do believe it is exactly the movie Kevin Smith intended to make, which makes it a good movie.

The rare movie where I see any starred review between 0.5 and 5 stars and I think, “Yeah, I could see that.”