Jamie Cansdale-Cook

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Favorite films

  • Battle Royale
  • Pale Flower
  • Twister
  • Infernal Affairs

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  • Wind River

    ★★★★½

  • George of the Jungle

    ★★★

  • Shiva Baby

    ★★★★

  • Heretic

    ★★★★

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  • Wind River

    Wind River

    ★★★★½

    God bless Taylor Sheridan. His worlds are where I wanna be, his stories then ones I'd love to tell myself. He taps into these people in a way few people of his privilege understand. And the atmosphere, tone, score, and cinematography? Freakin' ethereal man, freakin' otherworldly.

  • George of the Jungle

    George of the Jungle

    ★★★

    When you need to tap into the joys childhood promised, you can always rely on Brendan Fraser, his good boy, and his smartalec ape. Having not seen it in 20 years (!) I kinda wish I harvested his words on embarrassment and not the anxiety that has since claimed me.

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  • Clouds at Sunset

    Clouds at Sunset

    ★★★½

    A complex entanglement leaving you hanging by a thread as these two souls slowly unravel, Clouds at Sunset makes for a harrowing ordeal in that despair violently oozes not just from the actions both Matsuno and Kosugi suffer through but the nation as a whole. Shinoda's film is more than a romantic melodrama, it is a damning indictment on the stranglehold the early Showa years held over the country, a life under military rule, a time when the single-mindedness of…

  • Himiko

    Himiko

    ★★★★★

    Shinoda meets Jodorowsky - what more could you possibly need to know? Part moving still-life, part theatre, Himiko is a sumptuous bamboozlement for the senses!