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She's Gotta Have It (1986)
★★★★★
Watched: Nov 18, 2025
A great film about polyamory and women's sexual agency with a hell of a fake out ending. Lee's direction allows Nola to be sexual and erotic without being hypersexualized.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Frankenstein (1931)
★★
Watched: Nov 18, 2025
Changing the character from a sympathetic creation to a murderous beast really diminishes the heart of the story. The prosthetics are great and Karloff does what he can to bring some pathos to the monster, but it's not enough to overcome the script.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
★★½
Watched: Nov 17, 2025
The prosthesis that Veidt wears is pretty cool. The beginning and climax go hard, but in between felt very dragged out. It's nice to see a climax centered around class solidarity saying fuck the cops.
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
★★½
Watched: Nov 17, 2025
Wanted to like this more than I actually did. The premise could have benefited from being a show rather than a movie, as the pacing felt off. Some great moments such as between the captain and the shit seller; or the grenade manufacturer. 1/
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Run Lola Run (1998)
★★★★
Watched: Nov 16, 2025
I'm a sucker for a novel film structure and this one has that in spades. It's an interesting meditation on causality and the impacts (good and bad) we have on the people in our lives, intentionally or otherwise.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
★★★½
Watched: Nov 16, 2025
Epic in scale, and an impressive achievement in cinematography. Sadly, I felt like often I was missing some context the film assumed I had going in. O'Toole's gives an inscrutable performance, leaving me guessing at his motivations.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Eighth Grade (2018)
★★★★
Watched: Nov 15, 2025
A great performance from Elsie Fisher and versimiltudinous directing by Bo Burnham remind us that being a teenager sucks across all generations. Explores the harms of social media without becoming a moral panic. Banger soundtrack.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Goldfinger (1954)

Watched: Nov 13, 2025
Gert Fröbe gives a really fun performance as the titular villain, but the shot-to-shot editing is confusing and the sexism is off-the-charts. This isn't a Bond movie so much as a movie Bond is present for where he does nothing except cheeky hijinks and rape.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A while back I was discussing this style of writing with a friend of mine who's a physics prof and she has a colleague who writes emails like this. I think it's a fundamentally fascist style of writing that is incapable of empathy and universalizes the writer's experiences as objective facts.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
★★★½
Watched: Nov 22, 2025
Fast-paced conversation full of some very interesting, yet unresolved, ideas. The novel structure runs the risk of being dull and losing the audience's attention, but the compelling and charming performances keep that from happening.
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Three Amigos! (1986)
★★★
Watched: Nov 11, 2025
A fun concept, reasonably-well executed. Some good comedy bits, but the more fantastical elements like the singing bush and the invisible swordsman felt out of place. Could have done without the portrayal of nearly every Mexican being covered in filth.
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
From Russia with Love (1963)
★★★
Watched: Nov 10, 2025
Much better than the previous film. Some really interesting cinematography, especially in the train sequence where the close-quarters fight choreography was very well-shot. Grant was an effectively intimidating nemesis. Drags a bit at the end.
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Dr. No (1962)
★★
Watched: Nov 9, 2025
It's got some interesting spycraft bits in the front half. The editing is weird, especially not showing an establishing shot of the mine. The back half is too slow and doesn't really justify the events that are occurring.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Bridesmaids (2011)
★★★
Watched: Nov 8, 2025
I remember when this came out and it's kinda crazy the combination of "comedy, but with women" and "actually funny" was novel enough to get huge amounts of praise. It's reasonably funny for sure, but I don't feel like it lived up to the hype of its time.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Tarzan (1999)
★★★★½
Watched: Nov 6, 2025
Disney's animation team at the absolute top of its game. The backgrounds and shot composition are gorgeous, the action is kinetic and dynamic. The plot is a bit rushed, but it's a delight just to look at.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Marnie (1964)
½
Watched: Nov 5, 2025
One of the most sexist films I've seen. Everything that could have been made an interesting and complex female character, in the hands of Hitchcock, instead sees Connery dragging us through his interpretation of her emotions and raping her into mental health.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This isn't the point, but if you circle the wagons around something, you are protecting that thing, not opposing it.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I love silly decks! My Kudo, Kingo Among Bears deck (named "Bearly Legal") roleplays as a nature preserve/bear sanctuary. I am bear. You are bear. Everything is bear. Your 0/30 wall is a 2/2 bear.
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
★★½
Watched: Nov 2, 2025
The scale is impressive with its use of the location and military craft, though I imagine making anti-Tsarist propaganda in 1925 Russia gets you some level of state support. Parts 1 and 2 are a bit confusing to follow but 4 is incredible cinema.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
★★★
Watched: Nov 2, 2025
Honestly I don't really get this movie and I feel like I'm missing a lot of things, but it's well put together and a pretty entertaining watch once you get past the slow start.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
An American Tail (1986)
★★★★
Watched: Nov 2, 2025
Compelling story with some great lessons for kids about solidarity and power. The metaphor kinda falls apart when it comes to metphorical historical accuracy, but you can only ask for so much from a kids' movie.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Pretty Baby (1978)
★★★★
Watched: Nov 1, 202
This is a good film for talking about the value of art versus the conditions of its creation. As a work, it engages a difficult topic to say something valuable about the sexualization of young women's bodies to slake men's power fantasies. 1/
November 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The Hateful Eight (2015)
★★★★★
Watched: Oct 31, 2025
It's not perfect, but I love this movie. The dialogue is suspenseful and disarming at the same time. It's a whodunnit where the twists are surprising but never feel unearned. The set is gorgeous and the score and performances are pitch perfect.
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Enemy Mine (1985)
★★★
Watched: Oct 30, 2025
A surprisingly queer-coded film. The interpersonal stakes work wonderfully but I find it a weird that the story never expands from that to make a broader comment on the senselessness of the conflict between the humans and dracs more broadly.
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sideways (2004)
★★½
Watched: Oct 30, 2025
Another entry in the critically-acclaimed "unremarkable man has midlife crisis for being unremarkable" genre. It's well-acted for sure, but feels specifically written to soothe the egos of middle-aged, middle-class white men experiencing a pre-2008 malaise.
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM