Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Die Hard 1988

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Dec 2024

  One of my favorite Christmas traditions. Last night, I was able to take my fifteen-year-old brother to his first screening of Die Hard at The Enzian and I already know I’ll cherish the experience for many years to come. Merry Christmas! ♥️

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  Interstellar 2014

  ★★★ Rewatched 12 Dec 2024

  I won’t even pretend not to be biased against this movie, I’ll just tell you why I am. In the last few years, I have had only two notable crushes. Both of these men have been devout Christians, in their mid-twenties, with defunct accounts on this app. Guess what the first film in both of their four favorites is? That’s right, Interstellar.

  I think I understand why. I mean, if I had never seen a movie rated above a PG-13…

Popular reviews

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Aug 2024

  My beloved Paris, Texas. I have watched it on my personal computer, I have watched it on the family TV... but this Friday night, I watched its stunning 4k restoration on the silver screen at the Belcourt.

  Sitting by myself in the center of that dim room surrounded by so many silhouetted strangers, I felt the resonance of this film and its themes more acutely than ever before.

  Paris, Texas is perfect. Profound, sublime, transcendent. It is so meaningful to…

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  Friday the 13th 2009

  ★ Watched 13 Sep 2024

  In my late teens, I had a wild hair to watch every entry in the Friday the 13th franchise - so desperate was I to understand the mystique of Jason Voorhees. After sitting through the entirety of Jason Takes Manhattan, I grudgingly abandoned my research and gave up trying to make sense of the phenomena. In that way, I finally understood. The Friday the 13th movies are obvious nonsense, but the best ones (I'm with the consensus re: The Final…