Favorite films

  • Fright Night Part 2
  • Inferno
  • The City of the Dead
  • Out of the Dark

Recent activity

All
  • A Haunting in Venice

    ★★★★

  • No One Will Save You

  • Mistress America

    ★★★★

  • The New Kids

    ★★

Pinned reviews

More
  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★½

    Definitely all out 80s in aesthetic but assuredly 70s in just about everything else. Friedkin still had at least one foot planted in the previous decade but says "hey, if life and everything in it's gonna be meaningless, I'll at least make it look and sound cool."

  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★½

    "She's the one having sex with the ice sculpture. We're all very fond of her."

    It's hard not to love the Tobey Maguire sequence. Even though it feels similar to a turn that would be in a PTA movie, it's still pretty exhilarating. I didn't think Chazelle had that kind of horror in his bag of tricks but hey, he does. The big three were great. Robbie, Pitt and Calva - especially Diego Calva. The bit players helped to make…

Recent reviews

More
  • A Haunting in Venice

    A Haunting in Venice

    ★★★★

    Dutch angles! Locations! Texture! Welles and Bava! Perfectly lit. Excellent dialogue. Melancholy. Classically spooky. Branagh forever!

  • Mistress America

    Mistress America

    ★★★★

    Greta Gerwig is so good at making you fall in love with her characters in every movie that she's in. The best screwball comedy this side of the 1930s.

Popular reviews

More
  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    ★★★★

    Subtlety is overrated. Funny is funny. Truth is truth.

  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

    She's a 10 but sometimes you wake up with a gun in your face.