gammison

gammison

Favorite films

  • Kinds of Kindness
  • The Green Knight
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

  • Den of Thieves

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★½

    He went full Rexsplode at the end.

    Saw at Alamo draft house wall street.

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    ★★★½

    Rewatched after seeing captain America brave new world. This film in hindsight is just fine but it's unbelievable how much better it is than BNW. Just a total breakdown of competent film making in a 10 year period from studio executives.

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  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

    Anti-banality of evil (despite promotional comments made by the director, I think there's some distinction between how people are using the term and its original meaning during the Eichmann trial) is how I would describe this film.

    Recognizable features of an externally “banal” life — career ambitions, marital disagreement, home building, raising children, dealing with in-laws — coexist and with and perpetuate very direct evil. These people were not disaffected bureaucrats, they were conscious fascists whose evil infected every aspect…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Pretty good, choosing to interpret the movie as the death of the old left heralding a Bob Dylan liberalism because otherwise why make up so many events that didn't happen. This Dylan should have kept hanging with Suze and going to Brecht plays.

    Desperately need a Pete Seeger biopic that will never come. Missed opportunity not playing the private property line from this land is your land.

    Jimmy Carter died while I was in the theater. Seen at Plano cinemark.

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