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Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Spirited Away
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  • Miami Vice

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  • The Electric State

    ½

  • After Hours

    ★★★★★

  • Empire of the Sun

    ★★★

  • The Godfather Part III

    ★★★★

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  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

    “Your Laura disappeared. It's just me now.”

    [Spoilers for Twin Peaks: The Return]

    A profoundly upsetting film. I have waxed poetic about this before and I will wax poetic about this film forever.

    Fire Walk With Me
    begins with a dark inversion of the Twin Peaks we know and love. A blonde teenager is dead in a small town and no one seems to really care. It’s a nasty town full of unlikable people yet the poison is seeping into…

  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    ★★★½

    A big step down from the previous installments of the franchise. Something is lost by swaying away from being a fish-out-of-water comedy to being a comedic adventure romp.

    The family dynamic that makes the first two sing isn’t fully here. They don’t give the kids much to do at all, especially the son who might only have five lines of dialogue during the whole movie. The quirky neighbours and citizens of London are really missed and nothing in Peru feels…

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ½

    “The fact is the service we provide for the world is going from utterly flawless to complete dog shit. Why?”

    Stanley Tucci utters this line in the latest Netflix blockbuster. Netflix keeps jacking up its price to pay for its ever expanding content library. They cancel critically acclaimed shows that they claim break viewership numbers. They funnel that money into $320 million films like The Electric Stare. Netflix funded this but they couldn’t spare a few shekels for David Lynch.…

  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★★

    After Hours captures that feeling of being over your head late at late. Maybe you are trying to hook up with someone or keep the party going. Your rational brain is telling you to go home. But there is enough intrigue in the night air to keep you going. Then you get trapped. Socially or physically you are locked into whatever setting your dick or Neanderthal brain led you to and all you want is to get back home.

    It's…

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  • Joshua and the Promised Land

    Joshua and the Promised Land

    This is what happens if you accidentally spill holy water on a Nintendo 64.

  • Christmas in Mississippi

    Christmas in Mississippi

    ★½

    I think the ending implies that Santa Claus ends American military involvement in the Middle East.