Co-manager of an indie movie theater. Sometimes writer. Full-time putz.
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The Electric State 2025
This is not a movie. This is a money laundering scheme, like most Netflix projects. When your film costs over $300 million, it should look better than The Brutalist. You could make fifty to sixty Anoras with this budget
I've said this before, but you have to be real skilled in order for me to be emotionally attached to robots. Unless you're Ridley Scott or Spielberg, it typically doesn't work. Robots aren't humans. They're hunks of metal and plastic. I…
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Anora 2024
Still a really beautiful movie. Reminds me of 70s pictures like The Last Detail or Mikey and Nicky; tales of ordinary people feeling the weight of life topple onto them. It gets the rhythms of true blue collar speech right. Everyone sounds like a living, breathing person and captures the way the average person deals with crushing disappointment and uncertainty: impotent bitching. People talk tough, make threats, cuss up a storm, yet the rich and powerful still never take them…
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Mitchell 1975
As the final movie of original Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Joel Hodgson, Mitchell became one of the most popular episodes of the series’ ten year run. What’s funny about the MST3K iteration is that they covered the television edit, making it seem like a normal, albeit goofy, cop movie. The actual R-rated version feels almost like an entirely different film. The cussing is restored, brief glimpses of nudity are given, the violence is shockingly nasty and there’s strange little…
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