Ben Helwig

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Favorite films

  • Whiplash
  • Akira
  • Interstellar
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • After Hours

    ★★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Jojo Rabbit

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

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  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★½

    Completely different from what I’ve come to expect from a Scorsese picture but still adored it nonetheless. Such a whirlwind of anxiety and stress all captured perfectly by Griffin Dunne

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Really loved the story, super intense and engaging. Dinner table and polygraph scenes were so good I almost didn’t want them to end. The therapy scenes were very meh though. Also, how am I supposed to believe that some of the characters would ever get security clearances???

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  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

    Love getting to experience these masterpieces for the first time. The character writing, colours and lighting all accompanied by that lovely jazz score watching that slow and intense descent into madness. Man it’s perfect

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    ★★★★½

    Probably the best performance of Sandlers career. Feels like the perfect blend of his comedy and more sincere “serious” stuff. I’m still yet to see a movie where Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn’t smash it and I don’t think I ever will. 

    I loved how you really feel exactly how Barry is feeling throughout the whole movie through the music, pacing and colours