Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  October Sky 1999

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Some really bipartisan shit

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  Mississippi Burning 1988

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  While I do live for this cross section of movie things, this shit is some serious wish fulfillment revisionist copaganda. The 60s FBI….come onnnnn

Popular reviews

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  Random Hearts 1999

  ★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2023

  Harrison Ford is a cop with an earring, horny for the truth in a mentally unwell kinda way. His haircut is ugly and convincingly Cop. 

  Kristen Scott Thomas is a Republican congresswoman who is trying to save social security 🤔. 

  They say things like ‘sooner or later everyone knows everything’ (patently untrue). In bed she says asks him if he’s a Democrat, which I’ll entertain given the 90s, but still seems very funny. Then when he says ‘so what if…

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  Field of Dreams 1989

  ★★ Watched 18 Jun 2024

  A disconcerting ghost flick about a gentlemen farmer experiencing a mental illness in an era where being kinda gay is sublimated. Sports sports. Gaby Hoffman is always cute. The fisher king for right wing liberals with daddy issues ?  Perhaps the purest form of such a movie, where the director doesn’t even realize what he’s doing?

  Also some side notes I don’t understand:::: the property title is in the hands of his in law but he still controls whether he ‘sells’? Also it’s 72 when he’s looking for the doctor guy but it’s modern day?

  *drunk review