Alex Allen

Alex Allen Pro

No more stars; You either get the heart or you don’t (❤️ = I at least liked it more than I disliked it)

Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Amadeus
  • The Long Day Closes
  • Your Name.

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  • Novocaine

  • Empire of the Sun

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

  • Black Bag

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  • Nightmare

    Nightmare

    I made this movie. It’s a little horror short about how it feels to have sleep paralysis. 


    You can watch it here if you’d like: https://vimeo.com/748667741

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    Really liked this a lot when it was a sweet romance about a guy learning that he needs to break out of living exclusively in a protective cocoon and a girl learning that she deserves more than she is allowing herself to have (Quaid and Midthunder are so good as the central romantic leads)

    Liked it less when it was an action movie about a guy who barely registers it when a giant spiked metal ball slams into his back

  • Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    Call that boy Hayao Miyazaki the way he’s obsessed with Japanese airplanes 

    Surprised at how much of this feels directly like a dry run for War of the Worlds (the opening image of the dead floating on water, the crowd growing more and more panicked as they try to evacuate right as the Japanese army invades, and the emptiness of the world when the war is near its end come immediately to mind

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  • The Beekeeper

    The Beekeeper

    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…

  • The Guest

    The Guest

    Love every time something goes even a little wrong for David and he reacts with exasperated annoyance at all these people that are making things difficult