Citizen Kong

Citizen Kong

Favorite films

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Prestige

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  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas

    ★★½

  • Dracula

    ★★★★

  • Cars

    ★★★½

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    ★★

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  • Godzilla Minus One

    Godzilla Minus One

    ★★★½

    The pacific titan returns in a film made in house instead of being trafficked to a dying Hollywood brand. The magic once caught by the first film but since lost in other adaptations is evident here, with the focus of the film revolving around actual characters with personalities instead of nauseating Michael Bay level bar fights between dinosaurs and apes.  
         At the end of World War II, former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima deals with survivors remorse and…

  • The Wolf Man

    The Wolf Man

    ★★★½

    “Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” I can’t think of a more perfect way to encapsulate this film if not through this mixture of a curse and a soliloquy. It’s a motion picture that not only captures the Jungian idea of Id & Ego, but also that of the punishment of innocence and the cruelty of circumstance.
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  • Downfall

    Downfall

    ★★★★

    Death comes to Germany from all sides and the allied reaper gathers the weeds to be burned while it scatters the chaff of ashes over a dying Berlin. This is Downfall, a dramatic piece exposing the frailties of human nature through its blunt depiction of deutschlandish delusion and Nazi narcissism.
         Hitler burrows himself in his bunker of cult followers and takes on a new secretary in Traudl Junge, a young German fräulein confident in her new bosses morality…

  • The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    ★★★★

    The Coen Brothers are at it again in a parodic representation of a 1940’s film noir drunk on White Russians and bloated with Bowling balls that follows the polar opposites of the Samuel Spades and Phillip Marlowes of the worlds detective mysteries.
         The Dude is the Humphrey Bogart of the late 90’s with a declining self respect and low credit score. In his pursuit of a simple hedonistic life, he is thrown into a crazy plot he has…

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