Heat

1995

Liked Rewatched

“You don't live with me, you live among the remains of dead people.”

Mann shooting that one POV shot on digital changed his life forever.

Porco Rosso

1992

Liked Rewatched

I don’t play about all the faction world-building and color coding of the different pirates and their planes.

Hatari!

1962

Liked Watched

[IB Tech 35mm]

Snappiest movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life? Such a seamless interweaving of hangout and adventure beats that moved me like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The on-screen chemistry in this is so astronomically charming that you would never believe that this ensemble was acting. Might be my new favorite Hawks movie. I could watch John Wayne capture rhinos and Elsa Martinelli tend to baby elephants for hours upon hours and I wouldn’t get bored.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Liked Rewatched

“We can decieve the Lord of Lies.”

Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

Liked Rewatched

Lots of great eye acting in this one.

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

Liked Watched

The haters can try to put him down all they want, but at the end of the day Wes Anderson really is that guy. Every use of POV and negative photography in this genuinely took my breath away. Lots of beautiful live bugs, too. I just love espionage and slapstick!

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

1985

Liked 2

Reubens and Hartman were the fundamentals of new gen slapstick. I miss the old Burton.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Liked Rewatched

“Where is everybody?”

“They know what's coming. They've all gone home.”

Paranormal Activity

2007

Liked Rewatched

[35mm]

“I think we’ll be okay now.”

MTV Cribs from Hell. First time seeing this since endlessly rewatching it on DVD as a kid and I genuinely think I had a trauma response when “Night #21” came on screen. Stood out so much more on rewatch how much this is just 86 minutes of a woman slowly getting killed by her shitty boyfriend. Contains sound design so scary that it makes me cover my ears. What happened to this house, Mr. Blum?

Bamboozled

2000

Liked Rewatched

[35mm]

Spike Lee’s masterpiece. A genuine miracle that he could get away with making it. Seeing all the transitions to film and archival footage on a big screen knocked me on my ass and made me thousand yard stare for hours afterwards. Ancient evil broadcasted for a live studio audience on the digital idiot box.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Liked Rewatched

“There's no nations on this one. There's no rival ideologies, no dogma. It's who keeps their head and who panics.”

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Liked Watched

“The primordial digital ooze from which a weapon evolved.”

In which a phantom communes with god inside a deep sea coffin before facing off against its vampiric messiah in the heavens. A movie beamed in from the post-apocalypse. I could copy and paste my review for Dead Reckoning Part One and it would also hold true for this. Doubles down on every single idiosyncrasy I adore (and others bafflingly hate?) about that movie. Nothing is written, and yet everything feels so…