Brian Blase

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Favorite films

  • Double Indemnity
  • Alien
  • Chungking Express
  • There Will Be Blood

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  • Star Trek: Insurrection

    ★★½

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★½

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  • Star Trek: Insurrection

    Star Trek: Insurrection

    ★★½

    I think they could’ve done a lot more with the Worf going through puberty storyline. Missed opportunity.

    F. Murray Abraham is good. He’s in that Christopher Plummer-in-Undiscoverd Country-zone, which is where you want to be.

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★

    It’s great, but the only reason it’s my least favorite of the original three is because it’s just a tiny bit too knowing and just a smidge too fan service-y. I don’t really want you to pat me on the back for having seen the previous Indiana Jones movies. It’s not that that kind of stuff is so objectionable, but I do think it can hold a movie back from being an all-time classic, rather than an excellent installment in…

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  • The Flash

    The Flash

    ★★★

    This was a lot better than I thought it would be! It doesn't look very good, but this particular nonsense time-travel plot is laid out in a pretty fun and entertaining way. Michael Keaton saying "I'm Batman" and "you wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts" should make me roll my eyes out of my head, but you know what, the man's still got it. I liked it. Maribel Verdú is also terrific, and you can almost buy someone being willing…

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    ★★★★

    That bus fight was something special. I think it’s safe to say that it supplanted the elevator fight from The Winter Soldier for best MCU fight.

    Tony Leung as the most sorrowful of all comic book villains was pretty perfect.

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