Tom Patron

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Thanks for stopping by! Top 4 are my favorite first time watches in April.
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Favorite films

  • Sinners
  • Panic in Year Zero!
  • Wendy and Lucy
  • Last of the Red Hot Lovers

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  • Death Becomes Her

    ★★★

  • Child of Peach

    ★★★

  • A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

    ★★★★½

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★★★

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The Brutalist

2024

★★★★★ Liked 2

Synech-Tóth-e, New York.

It’s 11 PM in the Greatest City on Earth. I just got out of The Brutalist, and I have to express my thoughts now, knowing full well that I have to be wide awake in about 6 hours. I’ve been a fan of Brady Corbet’s acting credits for quite some time now (Funny Games US, Mysterious Skin), and I haven’t seen his other directorial efforts. But with The Brutalist, Corbet has crafted one of the most singular…

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Child of Peach

1987

★★★ Liked Watched

Relentlessly entertaining from front to back. It's like Obayashi directed an episode of Power Rangers. It's free on YT so you should see it.

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

1977

★★★★½ Liked 1

I think this might be my new favorite Suzuki?? Crazy, given the fact that this strays away from his gangster film leanings comes after a ten year gap between this and his most iconic film Branded to Kill. I was floored by this, from the way it's shot, the amazingly zany characters, to the commentary on fame and obsession. The second half of this film goes into full tilt, the likes of which remind me of mother! or even Funny Games. Simply amazing!

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Sinners

2025

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

I'm instituting a new rule in my life: if you did not see this in theaters and later bemoan about how "there are just no more good original ideas in movies anymore", you're legally required to go fuck yourself.

Mulholland Drive

2001

★★★★★ Liked 3

No hay banda! Film is an illusion. The images on our screen are all an illusion, and as experienced viewers we know this. And yet, we're still left in awe every time. But film can also help us cope with the realities of our world, whether our lives be mundane, unfulfilled, even frustrating. Diane is the manifestation of that, her life crumbling apart, her reality shattered, guilt and shame rising to the surface. But she constructs a cinematic world, in…

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