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  • The Eight Mountains

    The Eight Mountains 2022

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Dec 2022 1

    How dare they make a film that tries to and quite successfully captures the indescribable grandiosity of life?! How dare they film such a gorgeous, ambitious story right up in the mountains and not on a set?! How dare they make such an unforgettably moving film about friendship and nature and the paths we take in life?! How dare they play with my heart like this?!

    There's a moment in this film when Pietro says he needs to get away,…

  • Nine Days

    Nine Days 2020

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jul 2021

    "Have you ever reckoned the Earth much?"

    Rewatched Edson Oda's Nine Days again for the first time in 18 months since Sundance 2020 and... you know this is an absolute *masterpiece*, right? It's everything magical about cinema and the spectacular existence of life and beyond. Pure bliss. Astonishing and awe-inspiring in every possible way, from the score to the set design to the performances to the story itself about life and what it means to be alive. This is an…

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  • Companion

    Companion 2025

    ★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

    Another clever, cunning, captivating original sci-fi horror thriller. So many twists always gets me, non-stop surprise after surprise. What a wild script. Even more sharp and sneaky than I was expecting. Glad to see this script made it all the way to screen and turned out pretty darn good.

  • Weekend at Bernie's

    Weekend at Bernie's 1989

    ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

    "That man is alive!"

    Yep, still hilarious.

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  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City 2023

    ★★ Watched 23 May 2023 6

    Huh. At least after my first viewing, this is one of my least favorite Wes Anderson films. And considering I love sci-fi and love Wes Anderson, I should've loved this?! But nope. It's an extremely strange, oddly low-key, super nerdy alien encounter parable about... I don't know what? What was that? The most confounding Wes Anderson film yet. So many characters stuffed into a film-within-a-play meta story that only makes it more confusing. That narrative structure really took me out…

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria 2018

    ★★★★★ Watched 01 Sep 2018 3

    Luca reigns!! OMFG, you guys. OMFG. You have no idea how much this is going to fuck you all up forever.

    I really don't even know where to begin with Suspiria. The Kubrick comparisons I heard beforehand are accurate. There's so much to unpack, and analyze, and discuss. Take your time. We have the rest of this year, and the next few years, to talk about it at length. Just don't miss it. See this film.

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