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Favorite films

  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Blade Runner
  • Kwaidan
  • Pulp Fiction

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★

  • Mountainhead

    ★½

  • Rushmore

    ★★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

LIFE AQUATIC recapitulated as some absurd, Thurbur-esque contraption. Perhaps a little remedial for Anderson but as usual endlessly lovely to look at and front-to-back hilarious.

Mountainhead

2025

★½ Watched

Not remotely surprised that Jesse Armstrong decided to turn what was probably a Succession finale idea that got immediately shouted down in the writers' room into a movie Adam McKay would blame you for not liking. I'm as pissed as anyone that society somehow continues to reward these venal accelerationist tech pigs for deliberately dismantling civilization but it's somehow even worse to me that TV showrunners are endlessly allowed to get away with toothlessly "satirizing" the softest targets imaginable.

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The Batman

2022

★★★★ Liked 2

The movie version of the "men will literally X instead of going to therapy" meme.

The Blair Witch Project

1999

★★★½ Liked 3

It's maybe good that these guys got lost and eaten or whatever, because before stuff starts going wrong it seems like their documentary was probably going to suck.