Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hardware 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2023

  Love a dope fetishistic film, especially when it comes with extra sleaze.

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  Where the Green Ants Dream 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2023

  Only Herzog would follow up Fitzcarraldo with this.

Popular reviews

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  That Obscure Object of Desire 1977

  ★★ Watched 11 Jul 2018 4

  "Mateo, you don't understand women."

  ...neither did 77 year old Luis Buñuel.

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  Moonlight 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2017

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

  Those last five minutes offer the most subtly resonant instance of catharsis ever put on screen. A lifetime of longing and internal anguish overcome by a single gesture of outward vulnerability. The serene magnitude of a man liberating that little boy he has always been and finally accepting himself for who he is. No matter what Chiron's and Kevin's futures entail, I keep coming back to the refrain from Frank Ocean's "Godspeed:"

  This love will keep us through blinding of the eyes
  Silence in the ears, darkness of the mind