Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A film that perfectly encapsulates the American ethos — constant anger, entitlement, access to firearms — without meaningfully commenting on it. Later films of the 90's (American Beauty, Office Space, Fight Club, etc.) showed the destructive potential of mediocre men reaching the breaking point, but Falling Down shows it's cards too early. William Foster isn't a sympathetic protagonist for long, as we see his anger is the product of his narcissism. What we're left with then is a satirical thriller…
You WILL call your grandma after watching this movie.
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"Don't forget to take Bryan with you."
My girlfriend reminded me I had promised to bring the neighbor boy, Bryan, along with me to the 5:45 showing of Dune: Part Two. She was right to do so - I had indeed forgotten.
Bryan's father was a widower named Damon. My girlfriend had been helping him paint his apartment - a welcomed distraction to lift his mind off the passing of his wife just two years prior (a victim of the…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The second installment in the Rachel Sennott Cinematic Universe was a success. Six Gen Z friends (and an elder millennial) play a drinking game in a luxurious house in the woods. The game lasts approximately four minutes - twice as long as most drinking games last, on average - before things go horribly awry. This is a story of mistrust, of deceit, of murder. But pulling back the curtain reveals that it is also the story of something deeper -…