drjeff64

drjeff64

Favorite films

  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★

  • Witness

    ★★★★

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman

    ★★★

  • Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

    ★★★½

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  • Witness

    Witness

    ★★★★

    Five fun Witness facts:
    1. Harrison Ford’s only Oscar nomination.
    2. Viggo Mortensen’s movie debut.
    3. Danny Glover is the villain in two different movies nominated for Best Picture that year (The Color Purple and this). Not sure if that’s ever happened before.
    4. This won Best Original Screenplay, and was originally written as an episode of Gunsmoke before being reworked.
    5. Harrison Ford’s first starring role that took place in the present day.

  • Music by John Williams

    Music by John Williams

    ★★★★

    Just Google the filmography and prepare to be amazed…

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★★

    What would you do if somebody else was going to be punished for something you did instead of you? Would you come forward and accept the consequences or stay quiet?

    That’s the central question of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, but with a twist: what would happen if you’re on the jury for the innocent person’s trial? Justin (Nicholas Hoult) comes to this realization when he, as he hears evidence during the trial, starts to think that a deer he thought…

  • Sisu

    Sisu

    ★★★★

    There’s no magic formula to making a good movie. It takes the right balance of things in your control (as well as some dumb luck) to make a good movie, much less a great movie.

    One way to make a movie people can cheer for is to have your main character brutally massacre some Nazis.

    That’s the central appeal of the hyper-violent Sisu, a Finish film that takes a similar approach to John Wick while also feeling like an action movie from…

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