Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  ★½ Watched 17 Sep 2023

  If Shyamalan's love language is like his filmmaking he has to be the most manipulative lover ever.

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  Bottoms 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Sep 2023

  Betrayal.

Popular reviews

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  Corruption 1968

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2019 5

  Robert Hartford-Davis’s “Corruption” gets a lot of hate. Women can be forgiven for seeing the featured poster and believing the movie isn’t for them, because it says so. Some men take offense at the protagonist, played by Peter Cushing, because of the lengths he goes to fulfill his adulterous lover’s vanity.

  To some extent, these naysayers have it right. Insofar as “Corruption” has anything to say about women, it’s not trying to flatter the egos of gendered identities and virtues.…

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  Eyeball 1975

  ★★★ Watched 03 Sep 2018 2

  Umberto Lenzi might’ve been the goofiest of all the Italian B-movie mavericks. He dabbled in every genre cycle, reliably replicating the standard forms of narrative and style with some technical competence. Yet, as he went for excess and intensity he simultaneously induced laughter, likely unintentionally. This placed him at a lower quality level than directors like Sergio Martino and Lucio Fulci, but it made him enjoyable nonetheless. [1/4/23: Years later, I've seen many good Lenzi movies and I no longer…