Callen

Callen

Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Into the Wild
  • Boyhood
  • Good Will Hunting

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  • Alice in Wonderland

    ★★★★★

  • Ice Princess

  • Stand by Me

  • Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

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  • Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    ★★★★★

    I had never seen this film! I knew it was “trippy” but I didn’t know they’d mastered the transference of the psychedelic experience into film in 1951. Absolutely incredible.

  • Ice Princess

    Ice Princess

    This came out when I was a 5 year old figure skater and I watched it to death at that point. Rewatching as an adult shows it’s just as good as I remember, and I am every character. The original lady bird, a telling tale of mothers and daughters. The fight in the parking lot between Tina and Joan is the epitome of liberal vs conservative morals. All the cringe of a Disney Channel original classic, with Casey always saying…

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  • Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

    ★★½

    I'm all for a 2000s rom-com with a material girl montage, but this movie is pushing me to my limits! Between the gleaming superficiality and the hedonistic lifestyle of these four girly-pops, I was hit with a date rape drug that forced this 2000s vision of American city life down my throat. Glad I never watched this when I was younger because I might have liked it??? Hard to say. A capitalistic pornagraphic montage of wealth and excess—adding touches here…

  • The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    ★★★★★

    Well well well… An indie film about Trump’s origin story - something I thought couldn’t be pulled off, but they surprisingly nailed it. The whole time, I kept imagining Trump watching this and likely narrating over it, shutting it off at points. They really got him with this one. Jeremy Strong deserves some kind of award, his performance was a blessing. The film ran as a sharp reminder to the entire world of how trickle down economics and tax cuts…

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