Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 05 Dec 2023

  Gojira remixed as a nationalist fantasy designed for maximum fist pumping and flag-waving, much like Top Gun: Maverick is to the United States. As a creature feature, the behemoth delivers with a great design, atomic breath and all. As a human drama? Comparisons to the great emotional storytellers are…a stretch. The cast (especially Sakura Ando) are generally good with the material given to them, but I failed to connect with the film’s more…overbaked moments.

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  Godzilla vs. Destoroyah 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2023

  Genuinely moving in ways I did not expect.

Popular reviews

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  House of Gucci 2021

  ★★★ Watched 18 Nov 2021 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  He cooka da meatball, she murda da husband!

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  The House That Jack Built 2018

  ★ Watched 28 Nov 2018 7

  Lars Von Trier: Hey man, doesn’t life suuuuck? And doesn’t the life of an artist suuuuck? Aren’t serial killers the same as serious artists? Aren’t their victims, in a sense, a work of art? Hey, aren’t I a serious artist? Isn’t my entire filmography full of violent and disgusting things? Doesn’t Matt Dillon in this movie I directed remind you of me? Doesn’t his appalling crimes in this movie remind you of my movies and how they’re received by audiences?…