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Favorite films

  • Kick-Ass
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • The Social Network
  • Back to the Future

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  • Godzilla

    ★★★★

  • Before Sunrise

    ★★★★

  • The Kingdom

    ★½

  • Isang Himala

    ★★½

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  • Godzilla

    Godzilla

    ★★★★

    If you view it as its own film outside of the Godzilla franchise and as a cliche 90s popcorn blockbuster, it’s an absolutely fun time.

  • Before Sunrise

    Before Sunrise

    ★★★★

    There’s a short montage where it just cuts between random conversations of locals or tourists before it comes back to Jesse and Celine and I think that encapsulates what this movie is. It really is just this unfiltered conversation between these two people, just like the ones we have with people in our lives.

  • The Kingdom

    The Kingdom

    ★½

    How is this a Philippines that was never colonized but we somehow still have jeepneys when that was specifically a product of the American colonization?

  • Moana 2

    Moana 2

    ½

    Although Emily Bear may be a piano prodigy, this film shows exactly the difference between Barlow & Bear and Lin Manuel Miranda - they aren’t students of musical theater. He may not have the music theory, but he understands why a song is happening in a musical. Yes, there is rapping in Moana 2 but Barlow & Bear lacked the understanding of why rapping happens in Lin Manuel’s work (and he almost always uses rap for a narrative reason). This movie is just…

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