🎞️Chris' neverending watchlist 🎞️

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Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Dreams of a Life
  • La Dolce Vita
  • Videodrome

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  • Crooklyn

    ★★★

  • Malcolm X

    ★★★★½

  • Journey to the Oscars

  • Jungle Fever

    ★★½

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  • Crooklyn

    Crooklyn

    ★★★

    Follow along as I review key Spike Lee films in the upcoming weeks!

    Arguably the director’s most personal work, a coming of age drama about growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Having achieved a name for himself in the late 80s and early 90s, Spike Lee could realize a dream project, an autobiographical, collaborative screenplay co-written with siblings Joie Lee and Cinqué Lee.

    Narrative focusing on little moments and memories of childhood, kids playing in the street, arguments with neighbours, shoplifting,…

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    ★★★★½

    Follow along as I review key Spike Lee films in the upcoming weeks!

    Based on Alex Haley’s and Malcolm X’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (1965), period drama about the ups and downs of the civil rights activist. A history lesson, important moments that shaped his character. In fact director Spike Lee even urged kids to cut school to see his movie, believing that “X” provides just as much (or more) education.

    The name ‘Malcolm X’ was a rejection of…

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  • Minority Report

    Minority Report

    ★★★★

    Recommended by KJ


    Sci-fi action mystery-thriller. I remember when I saw the movie back in 2002 at the cinema a person sitting behind me commented out loud “Spielberg?” during the end credits. I can see where he was coming from as it’s darker than Spielberg’s typically sentimental approach, and could have been directed by another filmmaker.

    A Hitchcockian ‘man on the run’ story set in the year 2054, loosely based on the 1956 short story "The Minority Report" by Philip…

  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★½

    Prequel-that-really-is-a-remake. If you’re familiar with the 1982 version, you know what to expect from the creature, so the element of surprise is gone. There are moments of suspense, especially the autopsy scene.

    I appreciated the updated international cast. Not often you have Norwegian and Danish actors speaking their own language in a big Hollywood production, and distinguishes it from John Carpenter’s which included American researchers. I like the addition of humor which is funnier if you're Scandinavian.

    The dialogue this…