Chris

Chris

fiction writer | video game blogger | random esoterica in an old trench coat

Favorite films

  • The Handmaiden
  • Sunshine
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Interstellar

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  • Last Breath

    ★★★★

  • Underworld

    ★★★

  • A Simple Favor

    ★★

  • A Simple Favor

    ★★

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  • Last Breath

    Last Breath

    ★★★★

    Best part of the movie is when it reveals that real-life Duncan might be Woody Harrelson’s long lost twin.

    Rest of it was tense as fuck though. Most stressed I’ve been watching a movie since maybe Whiplash.

  • A Simple Favor

    A Simple Favor

    ★★

    There's really two movies in here, a Gone Girl-lite thriller and an absurdist black comedy, and it never quite figures out which of the two it wants to be.

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★

    Shallow as a glass pond. As a puddle on level ground. And that would really be fine, very fun even — Hugh Grant playing the most Reddit Atheist to ever Atheist is mostly a good time and East and Thatcher play off him extremely well — if its finale weren’t trying so hard for something approaching a statement, approaching capital-M Meaning, that it is woefully unprepared to provide.

  • Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

    Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

    ★★★½

    The journalist narrating his own story gives what would otherwise be a pretty run-of-the-mill Netflix true crime doc a nice, personally affecting touch.

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