Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023

  ★★ Watched 28 Jun 2023

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

  - knew there was gonna be trouble when the paramount logo didn’t transition into the opening shot…just got worse from there. 

  - Ford looked trash in the opening flashback. Immediately a massive turn off. If the future of movies is an upscale video game cut scene, then I don’t want it! It also doesn’t help that “young” Indy sounds like a grumpy old man. Everything looked fake and bad. No weight, no substance. Remember the train sequence in Last Crusade?…

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  Minority Report 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 May 2020

  Steven Spielberg’s run from 1998-2005 is probably the best he ever was, and most likely the best he ever will be. The Saving Private Ryan - Munich run is absolutely ironclad and Minority Report miiight be the best of the bunch.

Recent reviews

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2023

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

  Llewyn has to step aside for Dylan to become a star. The world wasn’t ready for two such soulful artists. One of em had to go. I like to think Llewyn played a small part in history but he’d never know it. 

  Beautiful film. “Llewyn is the cat.”

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  Infinity Pool 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Nov 2023

  idk I guess I’m a bit underwhelmed. Like I watch movies to escape ya know? So when a film like this so perfectly captures my day-to-day life on screen I am kinda left feeling a bit “been-there-done-that” tbh.

  
  (odd that Brandon is basically a copy n paste of his dad but just slightly worse. Be a filmmaker for sure but maybe make romcoms and dramas a.ka. The Sofia Coppola/Nick Cassavetes route.)

Popular reviews

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  Casino 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Nov 2023

  the blood in this looks like Giallo blood. Love it.
  And that Saul Bass title sequence sure is a sight to behold.

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Nov 2023

  every man’s face in this resembles a cracked, leather beanbag. It is perfect. A bunch of beanbags doing crimes. 

  Just an absolutely colossal masterpiece. Mann’s the man.