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  • The King of Darkness

  • Open Doom Crescendo

    ★★★★

  • I.K.U.

    ★★★

  • Bad Girls Go to Hell

    ★★★½

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Actors

2021

½ Watched

Alright, I'm calling it now, cis people aren't allowed to make movies any more, y'all can't be trusted.

It's not that it's offensive - though, y'know, yeah - it's that it's really fucking bad. Aesthetically and emotionally ugly without cause; borrowing the patina of experimental filmmaking to cover for a lack of understanding of visual language; borrowing the language of minority experiences to tell a story about two cishet white people experiencing difficulty for the first time ever; relying on…

Don't Look Up

2021

★½ Watched

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

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The King of Darkness

2025

Watched

BUFF DAY 3

Not going to give this a rating because it's a work in progress. I will simply say, as I often have, that I think AI is a cancer that is poisoning the arts, our brains, and in real time the fucking planet, and I don't think there's a way you can use it "ironically" that offsets the irreparable damage it does to the world.

Open Doom Crescendo

2022

★★★★ Liked Watched

BUFF DAY 3

At any given moment during this film I felt like I could have been watching it for five minutes or five hours. It is somehow both incredibly straightforward and totally inscrutable, and it has the energy of kids playing pretend in a backyard. I mean all of these things as compliments. Love seamlessly folding your gag reel into your film and having it actually be an emotional moment.

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American Beauty

1999

Watched

Boy did this age badly. It also wasn't good in 1999, but holy shit.

The Guilty

2021

okay but here's my thing:

make this a detective loki sequel and i'm there faster than you can say "BOTH FUCKIN HANDS"