Brandon Taitt

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Geek, dad, husband, organizer. Cares about community and Captain Picard in equal measure.

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Ikiru
  • My Neighbor Totoro

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  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3

    ★★½

  • It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football

    ★★★½

  • Feeders

    ½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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  • Vibrations

    Vibrations

    ★½

    I’m shocked the Rifftrax crew haven’t gotten around to this yet. 

    The only way it could feel more 90’s would be if it had a “FOX Night at the Movies” bumper at the beginning.

  • Predators

    Predators

    ★★★★

    A documentary that serves as a devastating look at the Dateline NBC series To Catch a Predator hosted by Chris Hansen, its modern copycats, and our complicity as an audience in true crime more broadly. 

    This was an emotional rollercoaster. I still have no sympathy for the child sexual predators featured in TCOP and the doc doesn’t really attempt to make you have any for them (though there’s one instance that is questionable in Chris Hansen’s newest version of his…

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    Megalopolis is what would happen if you gave Neil Breen a winning Mega Millions lotto ticket and a copy of The Power Broker and said “have fun, champ”. 

    I’m not kidding. There’s nothing thematically dissimilar from Adam Driver’s final monologue in the film and Breen’s in Fateful Findings. Both of them are incoherent ramblings of “great men” against bad green screen backdrops. The only difference is, one would think, that Coppola should know better. Apparently he doesn’t.

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    “Let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.”