Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Isle of Dogs 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This is a real masterpiece. Certainly deserving of two Oscars. After the credits rolled, we spent some time watching “the making of” videos, reading articles, etc. Lots of WOWs and THAT’S CRAZYs.

  Human beings: prideful, short-sighted, cantankerous creatures. But damn if they ain’t creative. This is from Wikipedia:

  About 20,000 faces and 1,105 animatable puppets were crafted by "12 sculptors working six days a week" for the film; 2,000 more puppets were made for background characters.

  LIKE WHAT?! 😮 

  The…

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  Tropic Thunder 2008

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Funny funny funny. But it definitely loses my attention in the second half due to the lack of a clear driving conflict. Still enjoyed!

Popular reviews

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  Brokeback Mountain 2005

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  If you can’t fix it, you’ve got to stand it.

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  The Matrix 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Dec 2024

  VERY philosophically compelling— which I need in an action movie.

  I loved Morpheus’s monologue about what ‘real’ is. If ‘real’ is what we taste, see, feel, hear, and touch, then ‘real’ is just an electrical signal in the brain. Yada yada yada. Stuff like that will get me thinking WAY TOO HARD on a Sunday night. And 9 times out of 10, it will have a weird sundowning effect on my amygdala and send my brain cells running around in…