Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  It 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Nov 2018 4

  This may not be a perfect adaptation of ‘It’ but Tommy Lee Wallace gets so much right about this epic story. Lawrence D. Cohen wrote a beautiful first half which perfectly establishes all the characters within the story. A couple liberties are taken here and there but none of them seem to bother me the way the new adaptation tends to. All the characters still have all the amazing traits that make them who they are and what they mean…

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  Titanic 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Feb 2023

  Mast-erpiece.

  It was great being able to catch this on the big screen. Titanic was the biggest movie of the 90s by a long shot. My brother and I used to watch it all the time on our VCR, I can’t remember another double tape VHS that could hold our attention at 5 and 7 the way Titanic did. Céline Dion was playing out of every minivan car stereo in the country. Movies don’t explode like Titanic did anymore. I…

Recent reviews

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  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005

  ★★ Rewatched 01 Oct 2023

  Such a weird, poorly conceived, unnecessary film. The beginning to a serious decline in Burton and Depp’s, previously excellent, body of work. Neither would return to any sort of resemblance of their greatest achievements again.

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  The Lion King 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Oct 2023 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Easily one of the greatest animated films of all time. I was so glad to catch this in the theater.

Popular reviews

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  Echo in the Canyon 2018

  ★★ Watched 06 Jun 2019 6

  Jakob Dylan tricks you into watching a super self-indulgent documentary about him liking music. There’s about 30 minutes of interviews that relate to how this doc has been advertised and the rest is Jakob covering songs of the time in an incredibly bland fashion. It’s worth it for the interviews though, there are some great gems of anecdotes in there. I’d just fast forward through all the Jakob Dylan.

  “You’re playing it in the wrong key.” - Brian Wilson to Jakob Dylan

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  Mandy 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Oct 2018 5

  I’m not sure if I’ll be able to come up with the words to describe my experience of watching Mandy on the big screen. I walked out of the theater in total silence, mind blown; annoying Alyssa, because I typically have a million things to say. I sat and stared at the screen, mouth wide open, my hands anxiously holding onto Alyssa’s. I was transported into another world, even with that person behind me who only came to scoff at…