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Favorite films

  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Strawberry Mansion
  • The Special People

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  • Blood Brothers

    ★★★★

  • Stice's Satyricon

    ★★★½

  • The Endings

    ★★★★

  • Humane

    ★★★½

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Blood Brothers
★★★★ Watched

Pure joy watching literal kids play out the most inappropriate for kids story filled with curses and gore that would make fellow Floridian Herschel Gordon Lewis proud. 

See, when you snort a mountain of coke and then kill a shady weed dealer trying to sell you parsley you just get the thirst, man. Once you pop you can’t stop and we even go full Jason Voorhees by end by way of the resurrection of Jesus. This Mike Diana dude seems…

Stice's Satyricon
★★★½ Watched

Glitched out aggro hyper pop concept album adaptation of Satyricon translated to a video film of 8-bit graphics, a one woman cast of dozens, Death Grips styled beats, and hyperactive visuals that repulse and attract at the same time. An engrossing experience of extremely lofi video art pulled along easily by an unpredictable lead performance and even more unpredictable music with certifiably insane lyrics. This is that underground shit people pass around that gains traction for its audacity and fearless…

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Heart of Glass
★★★★ Liked Watched

With no hint of hyperbole, one of the strangest films I've ever seen and, most likely, ever created.

The theme here is similar to Herzog's Aguirre. Again he is flirting with the meticulous descent into madness but his scope has changed. Heart of Glass deals not with the madness of obsession but the madness of loss. Herzog has also opened up his scope from a single individual or small group to an entire village.

Heart of Glass is about a…

Mind Game
★★★★★ Rewatched

You ever watch a film where you know, without an ounce of hyperbole, that you have never seen anything like it before and you will never ever see anything like it again? Mind Game is the ultimate expression of that ideal.

Masaaki Yuasa's directorial debut is a literal explosion of creativity and expression. Merging every single visual technique you can't possibly imagine into a singular body of work, you never stop being dazzled. Utilizing a plot that can simply be…