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Nightmare 2022
I made this movie. It’s a little horror short about how it feels to have sleep paralysis.
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The Electric State 2025
The scourge of algorithm-driven filmmaking has adapted a pensive travelogue into such an unengaging and uninteresting riff on Ready Player One (among other better movies) that I am retroactively re-evaluating how good Spielberg’s version is
If one of your big ideas is that we are on a path to robots being more human than humans, perhaps you should have more to say than just reheating ideas from A.I. and adding a climactic big budget action sequence
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Snowpiercer 2013
“They’ve got no bullets!” sequence is among the most impressively cohesive moments of every formal element working together perfectly that you’ll ever see. Same goes for the leadup to the fight with the masked soldiers (Beltrami composed a fantastic score here)
Song Kang-ho and Ed Harris give criminally underrated performances in this
Something I often say about Bridge of Spies is that if basically anyone other than Spielberg’s name was on that exact same movie, it would be considered by…
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The Beekeeper 2024
Great January release. Dumb as rocks with a weird, nasty amoral streak where Statham is at once working to restore the moral order of the world and also only out for revenge because the most cartoonishly evil phishing scammers (good job Ayer for seemingly giving the actors playing the call center managers the direction “you’re the biggest shitgoblin to ever exist and you love that fact”) stole a nice lady’s entire life savings (the place this movie ends at from…
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