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Favorite films

  • Tampopo
  • Mind Game
  • True Stories
  • Minding the Gap

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  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

    ★★★★½

  • Art College 1994

    ★★★★★

  • Moonstruck

    ★★★

  • Scent of a Woman

    ★★★

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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

1988

★★★★½ Rewatched

Watched it a second time with friends at the Revue Cinema, as part of the We Really Like Her screening series. I still think Ozzy and Lemmy seem really cool and normal. Also noticeably more articulate than all the Americans (except Alice Cooper).

Art College 1994

2023

★★★★★ Liked 2

Second time watching, my earlier review is the 'main' one. Just wanted to note that on this watch it felt more apparent that all these kids are confidently parroting philosophy, poetry and art theory they'd been taught as if they were their own thoughts, which is in huge contrast to when they try to speak from the heart and are fumbling to express themselves.

Still love the very deliberate, confident pacing and attention to detail as well as the quirky humour. Can't imagine most of my friends wanting to sit through this but I like it a lot.

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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

2024

★★★★ Watched

Very solid! I wish the discussion around this movie wasn't so focused on WB corporate fuckery, the movie itself is quite an achievement in sustaining this level of intense cartoony animation, and these characters on their own, for a whole feature length story. It even manages to make Petunia Pig a fun character in her own right. I have to it I got a little tired of bubblegum and alien stuff by the end... and I did miss seeing a…

Mind Game

2004

★★★★★ Liked 11

[I'm in the middle of translating the original Mind Game manga into English cause nobody else has done it yet and I want to read it. I rewatched the movie up to the point I'd translated to compare it. This is a reposted article I wrote for Cartoon Brew back in 2020]

I first saw Mind Game in 2011 after reading Ben Ettinger rave about it on his excellent blog Anipages. For some reason the film’s title was off-putting to…