Christian Ryan

Brenda: How do you go from this tranquility to that violence?
Sonny Crockett: I usually take the Ferrari.

Favorite films

  • Drive
  • Repo Man
  • Only God Forgives
  • Good Time

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  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★★

  • Sound of Freedom

    ★★★

  • Napoleon

    ★★★½

  • No Bears

    ★★★½

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  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    ★★★★★

    I used to chew my fingernails quite a bit, which would understandably drive my wife nuts, so years ago I came up with this deal that if she saw me goin’ at it she had full consent to smack me as hard as she could. And while I was able to dodge or block ninety-five percent of those hits, that other five percent, when she’d actually land one - or worse, graze me with a nail! - well, that was…

  • Sound of Freedom

    Sound of Freedom

    ★★★

    I have a friend who saw this in theaters and just went nuts, screaming from the rooftops what a brilliant film she thought it was, posting on Facebook about it being the most important thing ever made, and insisting that it was your civic duty to go see it, and if you didn’t, you were basically siding with the sex traffickers. 

    I bumped into her and her wife at the grocery store, and knowing how far to the left she…

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  • The Wolf of Snow Hollow

    The Wolf of Snow Hollow

    ★★★★½

    When I was a kid, my dad represented a man accused of multiple murders, and when he was acquitted of the crimes, as a show of gratitude, he took our family out to dinner at Bonanza Steakhouse. As we all sat there eating, I kept staring over at the man, wondering if he was capable of such atrocious acts. At one point, he busted me, looked up from his plate and met my gaze. He set his silverware down and…

  • Castle in the Sky

    Castle in the Sky

    ★★★★½

    When I was 19, I was shipped off to serve a two-year mission for my church and one of the rules was that we weren’t permitted worldly distractions, particularly movies. One evening, my companion and I were over at a Japanese family’s house and they threw Castle in the Sky on for their kids while we chatted about boring churchy stuff at the dining room table.

    What started as a few stolen glances quickly became a full-on apostasy as I…