Darryl James

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Favorite films

  • West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
  • The Last Laugh
  • The Wild Child
  • Breakdown

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  • Heart Eyes

    ★★½

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★½

  • The 4:30 Movie

    ★★★

  • Duel to the Death

    ★★★★

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  • Heart Eyes

    Heart Eyes

    ★★½

    Admirable in its melting pot fantasies of genre, but this left my head faster than it entered. Not void of fun or camp, just missing a spark to make it all zig and zag the way this idea called for.

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★½

    There is a movie in here that I really like, but it's padded out by extraneous/obvious scenes and writing that undercut the real magic Tarantino sometimes attains in this universe. For the first time in his career, I felt Quentin holding the hand of the audience with weak expository dialogue and static scenes that only serve to parallel points made better in other scenes of the very same film.

    Happy to say I enjoyed this a ton more than my…

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  • Beautiful Thing

    Beautiful Thing

    ★★★★

    The title IS the review.

  • Little Sister

    Little Sister

    ★★★★½

    Countless things in this film that amaze me but having a celibate protagonist eliminates so much of the extremely tired and yawn-inducing cliches in tales of young people coming back home and meeting some guy/girl that makes them ~feel new things~. Not everything is a bone-fest and problems not involving your sexual organs are important too. As an avid film watcher and homosexual, I get really bored with heteronormative twenty-somethings films where the only catharsis and conflict is sexual relationships.…