Favorite films

Recent activity

• 

  ★★★

• 

  ★★★½

• 

  ★★★½

• 

  ★★★

Recent reviews

• 

  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Mac 30 Jun 2022

  MCU phase 4 has been a bit of a mess but this film manages to get it much closer to the previous highs. It's still a way off, though. There's an essay to be written about motherhood in this film and fatherhood in Endgame.

• 

  We're All Going to the World's Fair 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Mac 19 May 2022

  A beautifully put together slow, creepy movie, born out of creepypasta, ASMR, YouTube, and everyone's universal teenage years.

  When we perform, are we doing it for ourselves, or someone else? An act, done for the right reasons, might be creative and nourishing, but when we bow to others demands it can be draining. At times, as an audience, we look into Casey's eyes and we see that we've taken something away from her. The teenage years are when we find…

Popular reviews

• 

  Piercing 2018

  ★★½ Watched by Mac 10 Aug 2020

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

  There's some interesting stuff in here, but it brings very little new to the table. It's the same craziness of American Psycho - cold and calculating while also clearly off the rails - with the addition of a worthy opponent. The retro aesthetics and unusual building shots were the best bit of it, for me, but we've seen most of that in other films too.

  What I do like, a lot, is this and Audition both acting as cautionary tales,…