About Me

Hello to one and all, welcome to my film blog.

I’m a lifelong film junkie, who also overthinks a lot, a full-time dad, and the guy that mutters “that was a choice” halfway through yet another Netflix original.

I created this blog because I’ve been talking back to movies since I was old enough to work a VHS player, watching grainy horror tapes I definitely wasn’t old enough to rent, and now it’s evolved into a deep love for cinema in all its glorious, chaotic forms. Yes, even the weird stuff. Especially the weird stuff.

My favorite genre is psychological horror. The kind that lives in your head rent free and quietly ruins your night. You know the type. If I leave the theater questioning reality and mildly fearing my own reflection, that’s a winner for me. I’m also the guy that will tell you psychological thrillers are actually psychological horror films, and should be called such.

But I’m not all doom and gloom. I will watch just about every genre though, especially documentaries (why are they always so well-produced?) And, I also like to watch the occasional rom-com when I need a reminder that people sometimes have emotions.

And thanks to my daughter – who is small, stubborn, and has a shocking command of the TV remote – I’ve grown to genuinely enjoy animated films. What started as survival has turned into some actual admiration for the genre. Some of these movies are just so much smarter, funnier, and much more emotionally devastating than most prestige dramas.

Outside of movies though, I’m just a semi normal guy trying to balance being a dad, working, and maintaining the illusion that I sleep. I drink way too much coffee, buy too many books I don’t finish, and have a real talent for turning “just one episode” into “how is it 3 a.m.?” I need more sleep, basically.

This blog isn’t academic. I am not a critic, just an amateur film lover, It’s just me, my overactive brain, and a backlog of thoughts that needed somewhere to land. You’ll find honest reviews, some wild opinions sometimes, and some hints of sarcasm.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my daughter wants to rewatch Zootopia and I’ve got a half-written review still open in another tab. Balance.

Oh, here are some of my very favorite films of all time, so you can see what type of films I really like, and why – In no particular order, really.

The Shining

I’m not saying I can relate to Jack Nicholson’s descent into madness, but leave me snowed in with no internet and a blank Word doc, and I’d probably start talking to hotel ghosts too. This is a film that just slowly peels away at your sanity. Hallways shouldn’t be scary. Elevators shouldn’t bleed. Yet here we are.

Se7en

The whole world in this film looks like it smells like wet concrete and cigarettes. And just when you think it can’t get any worse – Box. I actually knew the ending to this before I had watched it due to an asshole spoiling it, But I still sat there staring at the screen like I’d just witnessed a crime. Which, to be fair, I had.

Goodfellas

Goodfellas is what I have always imagined it feels like to be on a 24-hour cocaine binge in a mob-run Olive Garden. Granted, the outfits are questionable but damn they are iconic. And the moral lessons? None. Absolutely none. It’s so endlessly rewatchable as well, and I’ll probably show it to my daughter when she’s old enough to appreciate the subtle art of making sauce while disposing of bodies.

Casino

If Goodfellas is about friendship and bad decisions, Casino is about business, Vegas, and worse decisions. De Niro’s suits could blind a man, Joe Pesci is somehow more terrifying than in any other role, and Sharon Stone gives the most glamorous meltdown in cinematic history. This film taught me that love, money, and mob ties are a horrible mix – and that I am, apparently, into chaos.

The Thing

I love a movie where the biggest threat is literally everyone around you. You’re cold, isolated, and any one of your buddies might be an alien meat puppet. Carpenter absolutely nails that creeping dread where trust erodes minute by minute. Also, the special effects still hold up, and probably always will.

The Wicker Man

Not the Nic Cage version (though that’s a comedy classic in its own right). No, the real Wicker Man is what happens when you mix sunny folk music with human sacrifice. It lulls you into this weird, almost pleasant rhythm, and then burns you alive in a giant wooden man. It’s surreal, and proof that you should never trust people who sing too much. And that ending….

The Usual Suspects

This is a movie that plays you like a fiddle, then points and laughs when you realize it, and Kevin Spacey delivers one of the greatest monologues of all time. Even when you know the twist, it’s still such a beautifully constructed game of misdirection that I have to respect the hustle.

The Silence of the Lambs

It’s rare that a film gives us both a horrifying villain and a brilliant female lead without one undermining the other. Anthony Hopkins is so suave in a deeply wrong way, and Jodie Foster is just endlessly watchable. The whole thing basically plays out like a deeply messed-up dance, and every close-up is like an emotional mugshot. And yes, I now associate Chianti with human liver. Forever.

Rosemary’s Baby

This film is a slow-motion panic attack dressed in 1960s fashion. It’s basically two hours of watching a woman be gaslit by absolutely everyone, and honestly, it’s terrifying in a way no demon with claws could ever be. I love how it builds the dread out of smiling old neighbors, bad dreams, and a pregnancy that makes you want to call an exorcist instead of a midwife. Many find it boring I have found, but fuck them.

Psycho

The granddaddy of psychological horror. Hitchcock basically set the template for every slasher and thriller that came after it. And Norman Bates is probably my favorite movie character ever. And yes, I enjoy the sequels too, well, most of them. Psycho is a film that still messes with my head more than most modern horror does. And yet there’s nothing overtly in-your-face scary in the film, but the tension and psychological aspects of the film have never been done better.