Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  Like all of their best movies, and their best scenes, I can pick a detail that floors me.

  When Llewyn stops strumming and just sings the end of his audition, let's just say there's a reason everyone started putting Isaac in all the movies.

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  The Big Lebowski 1998

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Mar 2025

  The Dude's penchant for picking up phrases from previous scenes and putting his own spin on them is what stuck out to me this viewing.
  Mainly, this aggression will not stand man coming from H.W. on the TV. Too many other examples to list. Brilliant writing that.

  Also, all the faces Hoffman makes as Brandt. Especially the limo scene. The man always made choices. Miss him.

Popular reviews

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  Avatar 2009

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 May 2017

  Any little thing you could complain about is totally dwarfed by the heft, the wonder, the blockbuster filmmaking of a total master.

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★★ Watched 20 Dec 2019

  It's depressing how bad this is.

  It's "walk it back" the movie.
  It's a disastrous way to follow-up The Last Jedi.
  It's an even worse way to "end" the Skywalker saga.

  Much like we all knew The Phantom Menace was in trouble when the crawl started talking about taxing trade routes, this one was doomed from "THE DEAD SPEAK!".

  And it doesn't get better from there. Return of the Jedi gets walked back. And then the force starts doing...everything. And…