Favorite films

Recent activity

• 

  ★★★★½

• 

  ★½

• 

  ★★½

• 

  ★★★★

Recent reviews

• 

  Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Will Lybrand 29 Oct 2021

  Old slobs know.

• 

  Ambition 2014

  ★★ Watched by Will Lybrand 24 Oct 2014 1

  And a new genre is born - I'm going to call it manipulative science fiction. The name for this short film is apropos given its lazy reach for significance.

Popular reviews

• 

  Zero Dark Thirty 2012

  ★★★★★ Watched by Will Lybrand 12 Jan 2013 1

  Every American would benefit from watching this film. It provides the perfect decade long retelling of real life events in a complex manner only appropriate for the topic it covers. It is ambivalent in its stance on many important issues, left for the viewer to analyze in their own right.

  I'm also surprised about the 'pro-torture' backlash... I saw nothing absurd or unlikely in this film. Given how strongly our government advocated for 'advanced interrogation' and their defense of it,…

• 

  Big Trouble in Little China 1986

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Will Lybrand 30 Apr 2013

  Like a fine scotch, Big Trouble in Little Chine becomes better with age, showing overtones of a smokey oak followed by a prolonged, peaty finish.