Bill Reed

Bill Reed

Favorite films

  • Groundhog Day
  • RoboCop
  • Batman
  • Ghostbusters

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  • BlackBerry

    ★★★½

  • The Kid Detective

    ★★★★

  • The Exorcist: Believer

    ★★½

  • DC League of Super-Pets

    ★★★★

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  • BlackBerry

    BlackBerry

    ★★★½

    Watched the limited series cut, but I'm counting it as a movie. Funnier and more electric than I'd imagined. When you need a character to absolutely lose their goddamned mind, you call Glenn Howerton.

  • The Kid Detective

    The Kid Detective

    ★★★★

    The perfect movie for millennials with unfulfilled potential who wanted to be Encyclopedia Brown. So I'm the bullseye of the target audience.

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  • No Time to Die

    No Time to Die

    ★★★★

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

    I've been chewing on this movie for a couple days, trying to process. Daniel Craig was not my first Bond, but he's "my" Bond. This one is the Avengers Endgame of Bond films.

    Scattered Thoughts:
    I wish this one continued the alphabetical titling of Craig's other movies
    Dug that giallo-esque opening
    The pre-titles sequence was so long I thought they were saving the song/credits for the end of the movie
    Liked the opening titles, especially the gun double helix
    Ana…

  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture

    Star Trek: The Motion Picture

    ★★★★

    Director's Cut. I don't normally cotton to revisionist special effects and the like, but this movie looks incredible. And sounds fantastic-- that score! Funny to think it was greenlit to ride the Star Wars wave, but owes a lot more of its tone and aesthetic to 2001. Expansive, cerebral, and yes, slow, but magnificently cinematic. Pure, unapologetic sci-fi with a huge budget and massive canvas.

    I love how this movie-- sorry, I mean motion picture-- is about solving problems through…

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