Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sing Street 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025 4

  “It’s just how life is. And I’m gonna try and accept it. And get on with it. And make some art.”

  Happy-sad is the way.

  
  There’s just something about watching somebody discover themselves. Gets me every time. 

  Prop I’d want from the film: The little boat.

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  Another Round 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Drunk Poets Society 

  Prop I’d want from the film: Denmark graduation hat

Popular reviews

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  That Thing You Do! 1996

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Jan 2025 6

  Top three comfort movie. 

  Live thoughts: 
  -Guy miming washing machine mechanics is high comedy. 

  -Bring real neon lights back. Damn, what a look. 

  -“Is that Skitch Patterson!?”

  -Best marionette joke in the history of cinema. 

  -Oops…fell in love with Liv Tyler throwing darts. 

  -Holy shit, is this scene going from a group of women folk singers to the Oneders evocative of Dylan going electric at Newport??

  -Halloween costume idea: unhinged talent show announcer from That Thing You Do. 

  -The titular…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Wake up, America, new masterpiece dropped. 

  Story: Engrossing 

  Cinematography: Stunning 

  Score: Affecting 

  Brody: Brilliant 

  Buildings: Brutal 

  Prop I’d want from the film: Reading lounge chair