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  Incident 2023

  Watched 01 Feb 2025

  I don’t normally log short films, but I found this one of the most inventive and compelling pieces of cinema I’ve seen recently. Exactly what I want from a documentary.

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  Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

  Watched 08 Dec 2024

  My big takeaway here is that Emma Corrin is a motherfucking STAR. To do what they’re doing in a film of this scale is breathtaking.

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  The Dark Tower 2017

  ½ Added 1

  Seven years ago, in a fit of fury, I posted this review of The Dark Tower. Feels like my letterboxd account isn't complete without it:

  THE DARK TOWER (sponsored by Verizon™) is terrible. I've never felt the need to vent on social media about a film destroying a franchise I hold dear to my heart, but...

  As far as I can tell, the film did not contain a single scene from *any* of the books -- which wouldn't have bothered…

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  Rewatched 14 Apr 2024

  There’s an unexpected connection between Tom Cruise’s character here and Jack Nicholson’s in THE SHINING. 

  Both characters are hiding something, putting on a performance to the outside world in hopes of maintaining the facade. There’s a thing both characters do, which is stiffly address their wives by their first name. Hard to explain, but somehow they way they both do it reveals a lot about how much they’re hiding - Nicholson his alcoholism and Cruise his extreme horniness.  

  Anyway, this is a great film about being horny and then being disappointed in yourself for being too horny.

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