Favorite films

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  Die Hard 1988

  ★★★★★ Added

  Die Hard is the gold standard to which all other action films will forever be compared. A perfect film in virtually every aspect, from John McTiernan's direction, to Jan DeBont's cinematography, to Michael Kamen's score, to every actor's performance across the board: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald Veljohnson, ...and especially Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber.

  This film was the turning point in modern action films - the moment when they moved from the unstoppable one-man army of Rambo,…

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  Scream 1996

  ★★★★★ Added 9

  While the horror genre thrived in the 80's with the Freddy/Jason-type unstoppable killer movies, the whole genre was pretty much dying in the 90's. Scream came along in 1996 and not only reinvigorated the genre, but completely reinvented it. Wildly popular (and deservedly so) at the time, its reputation has since been tarnished as it often gets lumped in with the countless wanna-bes and knock-offs that followed, including its own relatively inferior sequels. But this was a great horror flick…

Recent reviews

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  John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2023

  Three things:
  1) John Wick is kind of a selfish bastard. He called in a marker from Sofia, who didn't want to get pulled back in, after he had not one week earlier begged Santino not to do the same to him. This is on top of the countless others who have been killed, injured, or had their positions taken from them either helping to keep him alive or just doing their jobs.

  2) I really like Halle Berry's Sofia…

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  John Wick: Chapter 2 2017

  ★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2023

  This chapter expanded the rich, detailed world of assassins they've created and cranked up the action even further, but it also introduced the one thing I really dislike about the series - bulletproof suits. 🙄

Popular reviews

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  Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond 2017

  ★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2017

  There's a part of this film where Carrey talks about how Universal decided at that time they didn't want to allow any of this behind-the-scenes material to surface "so that people wouldn't think I was an asshole."

  Well, almost 20 years later it finally surfaced, and Universal was right.

  This documentary just made me see Carrey as a completely obnoxious person to work with. He already seemed liked someone who would be a bit much to tolerate, but his behavior…

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  Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Nov 2021 2

  Full review later, but I REALLY liked this, and hope this is just the beginning of more to come.

  I think some people may not like so much familiar territory (a la Force Awakens/New Hope), but I didn't mind it at all.

  (and yes, there are mid- and post-credit scenes you should stick around for)

  p.s. - According to Letterboxd, this is film #6000 for me