Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2023

  My roommate introduced me to this, it was pretty neat!

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  Ophelia 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Dec 2023

  No, that's MY emotional support shakespeare adaptation.

Popular reviews

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  The Power of the Dog 2021

  ½ Added

  I am really tired of the trope of self-hating gay men being antagonized as misogynistic predatory evil people in period pieces, and I'm tired of straight men being heralded for playing them. The first and immediate turn off for this film. I don't care how talented Benedict Cumberbatch is, I am so sick and tired of watching the same Hollywood money go to the same sick and tired homophobic tropes. There is nothing revolutionary about making queer people the villain,…

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  The Fall of the House of Usher 2023

  ★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2023

  I'm really disappointed in Mike Flanagan's Fall of the House of Usher in what is a terrible misuse of Edgar Allan Poe's bibliography. Why is this a modern adaptation? Why is Roderick Usher saying "Omg Billie Eilish... hashtag lemon?" With a stellar ensemble cast, deciding to make the stories of Poe into a modern day crime family ala an Elon Musk style Henry Thomas performance is really, utterly disappointing.

  I am a Mike Flanagan stan above all else. I love…