Bryan Amerling

Bryan Amerling

Favorite films

  • Children of Men
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Aliens
  • The Shining

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  • Longlegs

    ★★★½

  • Land of Bad

    ★★½

  • Gladiator II

    ★★½

  • Heretic

    ★★★½

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  • Fall

    Fall

    ★★

    This isn’t very good, mostly from a dialogue and script standpoint. Should be 20-30mins shorter. But if you’re afraid of heights, and I am, it taps into that fear pretty well.

  • Annihilation

    Annihilation

    ★★★★

    Watched this with my son, his first viewing (my 4th). Mostly was just fun to share with him but seemed oddly appropriate to start it at midnight, New Years Eve, as we shifted to 2025. 

    Maybe something new is coming. Maybe something terrifying. Maybe it will bring light. Maybe it will kill us all. Who knows? 

    Anyway, this remains a near perfect sci-fi film and is absolutely beautiful.

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  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★★

    As a lifetime fan of the franchise, I tend to be receptive to most of its entries, even Resurrection and AvPR are two that I’ll watch on occasion even though they’re pretty bad. So I was excited to see this latest offering, particularly with Alvarez at the helm (and as a writer). 

    I was not disappointed. 

    Dropping the philosophical elements of Prometheus and Covenant (which again, I enjoyed but they both bogged down at times), Fede has created a taut,…

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    70mm print in IMAX, with my son.  Perfection.

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