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Warfare 2025

★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

Everything Civil War except narrowed to simple brutality. Bullets so sharp and unending; — they are unending.
Lucky to have seen a free early screening of this in Georgetown followed by an in-person Q&A with Garland and Mendoza.
During the Q&A, Garland seemed to be most interested in the verisimilitude of war movies and how he attempted to create a more “truthful” adaptation. While I’m not too interested in that specifically, what was more interesting was the “realism” crafted through its…
Transformers 2007

★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

Watching this, I am reminded of the Hollywood Godzilla movies coming out today and how this is just that but of its time. But there’s also a specific rush and energy in it that I haven’t found since Twilight that is no where to be found in those movies today. I’m not sure if there is ever a right place or time for a movie like this, but (i’m sorry) they just are not made like this anymore.

Babylon 2022

★★★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2022

Everything beautiful and rotten packed into one. Glamour, pain, disgust; it’s all there in front of you fleeting from your fingertips. A chance to be something better than yourself, and yet endure the effects of such a cruel world.
The Tree of Life 2011

★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Aug 2022

i think that this might have been the perfect film to watch considering my circumstances at the moment.
Thank you :)