Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023

  Watched 29 Mar 2023

  Really wanted to be on this movie’s side given how much I liked the first one, and there are little moments in this that work, but boy is the whole thing just a mess.

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  Inside 2023

  Watched 27 Mar 2023

  Tragically boring for a movie where Willem Dafoe slowly descends into madness while trapped in hell made to look like a luxury apartment.

  Dafoe innocent, though.

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars 1977

  Rewatched 29 Jun 2019

  I just got to see STAR WARS projected from an immaculate 70mm print. The original STAR WARS, pre-special edition (“A New Hope” was on the crawl, but otherwise unaltered). It’s an impossible dream come true, and I’m so extremely grateful for this opportunity. It was a 70mm print struck for the UK in ‘81 that was never screened because it tore the first time it was projected. There’s about two seconds of major damage right as the Death Star explodes,…

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  RRR 2022

  Rewatched 09 Jan 2023

  IMAX showing in the 900-seat Chinese Theatre where the attendance breakdown was roughly 50% Academy voters, 30% L.A. movie dorks, and 20% hardcore Tollywood fans.

  I’ve never experienced anything else like it.