jon ursenbach

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software engineer by day, trash cinephile after dark

Favorite films

  • The Substance
  • MadS
  • Frankie Freako
  • Disembodied

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Lady Battle Cop

    ★★★★

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  • The Keep

    The Keep

    ★★★½

    "What are you!?"
    "I... AM... YOU"

    Been wanting to see this forever now! I acquired it on VHS last year but the tape is so washed out that its unwatchable. I've also been trying to track down the 35mm scan that went underground online a while back to no avail. Sure its rentable online and there's probably a DVD out there that's probably a shitty scan.

    If I'm going to see a Michael Mann film for the first time I…

  • Godzilla: Final Wars

    Godzilla: Final Wars

    ★★★★

    Toho spent what looks like the GDP of a small country to make a Godzilla flick with latex and leather wearing aliens, every monster ever, bullet time, Sum41, a Universal Soldier-ass Earth Defense Force, a heavy that looks like he fell out of World War 2, a New York pimp getting yeeted into an explosion, and my beautiful son Minilla.

    It rocks.

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    Soderbergh and Koepp please keep making films together.

  • Wild at Heart

    Wild at Heart

    ★★★

    As many chances as I attempt to give Lynch's non-Twin Peaks work I just can't get past every actor not acting like a human being. How does he manage to continuously get these kinds of performances?

    Not for me!

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  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

    ★★★

    Maddening that Thurston Moore had to go and cheat on Kim Gordon, destroying their marriage, and Sonic Youth, in the process. Dumbass.

  • The Shaggy D.A.

    The Shaggy D.A.

    ★★

    Dude isn't even a District Attorney until the end of the film. Should've called this The Shaggy Candidate for D.A.