Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Speed Racer 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2018

  It's beautiful and inspiring and everything that art should be.

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  Flash Gordon 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Jul 2018

  I expected that to be fun. I wasn't expecting it to be beautiful. My god, composition after composition, and those lush colours.

Recent reviews

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  John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2023

  This one has some really great scenes, but feels the least like a movie of the three. More like another episode of the John Wick show. Which is fine, the whole is allowed to be merely the sum of its parts when it has parts like this. Like, the knives, the dogs, the museum, the book, these scenes are the most.

  The glee in that knife museum fight matches the happiness of the big fan bad guy wanting to fight John. Best villains yet, very enjoyable to hate.

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  Celia 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2023

  Hey, I used to do that as a kid too! Oh, but not that.

  With no expectations except from the poster this was a pleasant surprise. Quite enjoyed the premise, period, and the make up etc.

Popular reviews

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  Axolotl Overkill 2017

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Aug 2017 1

  I was expecting more axolotls.

  Enjoyed watching that quite a bit. Couldn't make a whole lot of sense from it, but surprisingly I don't too much mind. Great texture here, moment to moment. Scenes that convey.

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  Vampyr 1932

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Sep 2018

  Hooptober 5.0: Episode 4

  With live soundtrack by Chiara Kickdrum.

  How good is electronic music as soundtrack for silent film? So good. Especially here, ranging from unobtrusive continuity to pumping tension and back down to dreamlike ambient.

  I was surprised by the subtitles as I had assumed it was a silent film. At any rate, it was played as if it were tonight. (Should happen more often. Dialogue is over-rated.)

  Also surprised that the protagonist was played by HP Lovecraft.…