Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  This Is the Tom Green Documentary 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  I very much enjoyed Tom green back in the day. Not entirely sure why as I was very young but I even remember reading his book. 

  anyway this covers all the basics. Doesn’t necessarily go beyond surface level but it’s good stuff. And I’m happy that he’s happy. He seemed genuine and authentic back then and he does now.

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  Safety Not Guaranteed 2012

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  Peak Jake Johnson here.

Popular reviews

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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2023 1

  This is my favorite Wes Anderson movie since the Life Aquatic came out 19 years ago. And that’s my favorite Wes Anderson movie and one of my top 10 movies of all time. 

  For the record prior to Asteroid City this would be the list:
  1) Life Aquatic
  2) Royal Tenenbaums
  3) Bottle Rocket
  4) Rushmore 
  5) Grand Budapest Hotel

  I think this hops in at #5. Those first four films of his are pretty spectacular. Especially the first 3…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Bob Dylan was one of my first “guys”. And by that I mean an interest I got into independent of my parents. Inspired largely by my friends but driven by my own research and seeming out. 

  I distinctly remember being 13-14 and riding my bike to the library loading up on any and every Dylan album they had. AND then requesting the ones they didn’t for loan from another library. That led to a lot of rough stuff in the…