Ben Osborne

Ben Osborne

Egads, I’ve been Letterboxd!

Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Police Story
  • Son of the Mask

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Bad

  • Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

    ★★★★★

  • Perfect Blue

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    The

  • MirrorMask

    MirrorMask

    Mirror Mask? More like sheer ass.

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  • The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!

    The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!

    ★½

    The shorts would’ve been really cool if they’d released individually on YouTube or as bumpers, but when played back to back for an hour straight not many of them are funny or creative enough to stay entertaining. I’m a big fan of a lot of the creators in this, but their work does not translate well to this format. The host segments were particularly agonizing.

  • They Cloned Tyrone

    They Cloned Tyrone

    ★★

    While watching this, I was thinking to myself “this feels like someone who watches prominently Marvel movies watched a Jordan Peele film and tried to imitate it.”

    Sure enough, it was directed by the screenwriter of Spacejam 2.

    This movie has incredibly flimsy themes that completely fall apart if you approach them from any other angle than the exact way the movie presents them. It also really drags towards the end, and in my opinion botched what could’ve been a…

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