Cockayne

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Big fan of women going through things

Favorite films

  • Margaret
  • Walker
  • Light Sleeper
  • Paris, Texas

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  • 3 Godfathers

    ★★★★

  • The Two Jakes

    ★★★

  • Oasis

    ★★★★

  • The Piano

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    If there is an interesting debate to be had over The Brutalist it is over the nature of "the epic." While the film does sport the trappings of the traditional cinematic epic (a bombastic score, an intermission, a runtime longer than 3 hours, a collection of reels that could break a horse's back) it feels smaller. It feels even smaller than the film it feels the most intimately connected to, last year's Oppenheimer. It could be just that the stakes,…

  • Trap

    Trap

    ★★★

    I hold no grudges against Shyamalan. The man has proven to be a relentless, searching artist adept at engaging audiences. His string of failures in the last quarter of a century have seemingly broken the brains of many cinema fans. Some who saw The Sixth Sense as children feel in their bones that Shyamalan is a Grade-A genius, performing incredible mental gymnastics to explain the secret brilliance of The Lady In the Water.
    Others, who saw and loved Unbreakable and…

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  • The Astronomer's Dream

    The Astronomer's Dream

    Was Georges Melies the inventor of the "it was all a dream" twist in films?

  • Nine Lives

    Nine Lives

    ★½

    SEE THIS MOVIE AT A LATE SCREENING WITH SOME FRIENDS!!!! IT IS GUARANTEED TO HAVE NOBODY IN THE THEATER!!!!