Favorite films

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Spider-Man 2

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  • Return of the Jedi

    ★★★★½

  • Cowboys

    ★★★★½

  • Those Who Wish Me Dead

    ★★★½

  • Violent Night

    ★★★★

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  • Friendly Persuasion

    Friendly Persuasion

    ★★★★½

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

    Ranking the Different Types of Civil War Stories Part 1/7 “Anti-Lost Cause” Films

    Mini Review of "Friendly Persuasion (1956)"

    Pros:
    • Pro Union Protagonists: The Birdwell family, the Jordan family, Enoch, and the rest of Jennings County, Indiana are all Pro Union citizens that have nothing nice to say about Confederates or the Confederacy.
    • Confederate Antagonists: One of the earliest examples of having Confederate villains in a Hollywood film. Confederates are tied to slavery multiple times and are shown…

  • Cowboys

    Cowboys

    ★★★★½

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

    Cowboys (2020) is a criminally underrated film that I'm convinced is going to be considered a Transgender classic in the coming years. Steve Zahn gives one of the best performances of his career as Troy, a troubled father who is trying to do the best for his Trans son Joe but is going about it the wrong way by running off with Joe to Canada. Joe's mother Sally (Jillian Bell) isn't a bad person but either doesn't understand that Joe…

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★½

    "Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

    In short, this film is the lovechild of Gravity & 2001: A Space Odyssey. In long, this film is a lovingly crafted deeply contemplative science fiction drama. The majority of the complaints I got about this film from people (besides the ones I listed below) boil down to the fact that most of the real…

  • Thumbelina

    Thumbelina

    ½

    Don Bluth was a former Disney employee who became disillusioned with the company after their age of mediocrity following Walt Disney’s death and decided to strike out on his own to compete with Disney by showing people what painstakingly hand drawn animation and more mature story telling could do for the animation industry. Don Bluth actually succeeded at competing with Disney in the 80s with a string of hits (winners are based on my opinions, not reflective of box-office intake):…