Current Letterboxd goal: watch 1000/1001 "Films to See Before You Die," then die
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
Flow 2024
"The world looks so big from down here," my wife said aloud during the first few minutes of Flow, as if throwing me chum for my eventual Letterboxd review. What followed was the most white-knuckled and emotional high-strung 85 minutes of her life — and ranking pretty high up there for me as well. Cat-people both, one of us had to dig deep to find the inner strength to peel the other's eyes open whenever the low-stalking "camera" perspective revealed…
-
Gladiator II 2024
"Entertained" is an apt word.
Because all roads lead to groans when I attempt to mentally chisel the marble block that became Gladiator II into the dream I might once have dreamt. It is on one dusted hand a sequel set on following its predecessor's footprints in the sand, and on the other a sequel with neither the focus nor runtime to include the scenes necessary to connect initial ideas to their logical conclusions — perhaps the thinking was that…
Recent reviews
More-
-
Emma. 2020
Little and less of note happens in Emma. - unless you're noting Bill Nighy's hilarious furniture/wallpaper camouflage outfits - yet it was the belle of the ball for its entire run with me, and I was charmed like its blundering suitor. In lieu of external conflict or lasting strife, I became fascinated in the minutiae of this uptight little community's characters' daily lives: what will she make of this latest gossip?; who will he offer his carriage to?; what pecking…
Popular reviews
More-
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | February 17, 2023 | 1.5/5 stars
You know the "It's me, Blorko" thing? Well, he's actually in this one — and he's the best part!
Marvel continues to shrink even beyond expectations. Quantumania may be harder to resent than the awful Multiverse of Madness or the abhorrent Love and Thunder because it takes the silly romp approach rather than the slap in the face one, but it's getting more difficult to even determine which…
-
The Menu 2022
The Menu, November 18 2022, 4/5 stars
If you follow me on Letterboxd, there is like a 5% chance that you've seen me eat. For those actually reading a review of mine, call that more like 50%. For this, I sincerely apologize. I can be an animal. You may go ahead and harvest, ferment, tenderize, baste, and gel to your heart's content. I will nevertheless do the very thing Chef asks his guests to abstain from: I "eat." And, despite…
