Colin

Colin

Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Interstellar
  • The Thin Red Line
  • The Godfather Part II

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Dìdi (弟弟)

    ★★★½

  • There Will Be Blood

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  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    ★★★★½

    Most of us spend our entire lives in hiding. 

    Enchantingly distant. Pulses with a frigid tenderness that burns softly like a fast-collapsing dream. 

    I’m being pulled farther and farther from the Sun; to you. 

    A Malickean voyage into the cold dark of space. Richter’s hauntingly beautiful score; Pitt’s detached narration and exceptional yet reserved performance; the questions he asks to himself, seldom answered, unsure but not concerned; a lingering camera that steadies and shakes and turns to frame new subjects as…

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

    Maybe I’m just being cynical, but every time this story builds goodwill and tries to make me care about the characters it undermines the moment with an unnecessary attempt at humor. How can Marvel decision-makers be so consistently terrified of audiences engaging with their movie sincerely?

    Besides that, the performances were good. Some of the emotional beats work. Ultimately enjoyable as a popcorn flick though the action felt quite weightless at times. Obligatory eye roll for in-scene car commercials but that’s nothing new. 

    Has its moments. Probably worth seeing, though personally my Marvel fatigue is nearing critical mass.

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  • Jurassic Park III

    Jurassic Park III

    ★★★★★

    That ringtone has never and will never leave my mind. 

    Throwing objectivity out the window because Jurassic Park III stands firmly among my pantheon of Unconditional Loves... This movie has held a special place in my heart since childhood, when I’d spend days playing with Dino’s and watching this on VHS. 20 years later, still a 90-minute banger.

  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★½

    Marigolds disembodied, ground into obsession