ethanlaidler

ethanlaidler

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Favorite films

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Vertigo
  • Chinatown

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  • Grizzly Man

    ★★★★½

  • Oppenheimer

    ★★★★★

  • The Way of the Gun

    ★★★

  • Run All Night

    ★★½

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  • Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

    ★★★★½

    “I think he had lost sight of what was really going on”

    I feel as though Grizzly Man holds a level of brilliance in examining human nature, but also one’s commitment to nature and human conditions of obsession. 

    Treadwell’s story is a difficult one to assess for a plethora of reasons. His desire and passion that drove him is something one can dwell on in so many ways. He himself is someone who is unexplainable in a relatively magical sense…

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★★

    Nolan, as most expected, delivers something of modern day articulated cinematic mastery. 

    Pulses of heart pounding sound, explosions of cinematic complexity and a raw expression of life through war, time and physics.

    Between Cillian Murphy and the phenomenal acting of Blunt, Damon and even smaller roles such as Casey Affleck as a grilling superior and Rami Malek as a subtle yet loud character peering over the brilliant Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss. Acting alone the film stands as an…

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  • John Wick: Chapter 4

    John Wick: Chapter 4

    ★★★★

    The action, the darkness, the brutality…

    John Wick: Chapter 4 stands now as a testimony of what an action film needs to be, a thrilling and perfectly executed story or vengeance embedded with vast depth and harshness.

    The action itself is phenomenal in its extent of realism and brutality to shape a perfect sense of viewership. John’s arc from a retired assassin to now challenging the underworld High Table in a sense of lostness is surreal it is depth and…

  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★★★½

    I despise any kind of musical film and consequently I was pleasantly impressed and surprised by La La Land.

    As a fan of Gosling and Stone their on screen presence together and separate is remarkably enjoyable. Paired with the visually pleasing and aesthetically rewarding nature of the film in it’s great cinematography and stylish clothing and music.

    The nods to great historic films such as Vertigo in the green-lit room and Rebel Without a Cause make the film rather timeless…