Ian Mattingly

Ian Mattingly

Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • Twin Peaks
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Lost Highway

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  • Civil War

    ★★★½

  • The Firm

    ★★★★

  • The Conversation

    ★★★★½

  • Five Corners

    ★★½

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  • The Firm

    The Firm

    ★★★★

    A solid thriller with a great amount of talent involved. Some parts feel 90’s cringe but I love that shit. Wish Cruise’s performance was a little better in places. The contrast between him and the gawd Hackman is too stark.

  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    ★★★★½

    The red Red Robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along

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  • Reality

    Reality

    ★★★½

    Really interesting filmmaking here. Glitches and wave form images and ominous droning sounds.  It all feels like a horror movie but it’s a young woman getting interrogated in an empty room for most of it. And yet it works. Sweany has a way with the dialogue and makes it work in ways I don’t think the other cast members quite do. It’s the actual recorded dialogue of the real people, but the agents make it feel stylized while she makes…

  • Navajo Joe

    Navajo Joe

    ★★★½

    Super fun Burt vehicle. Of course weird that he’s half Native American but if you can get past that and how people die instantaneously from a knife to the belly then it’s a really enjoyable, action filled revenge movie. They really built the bad guys up so as an audience member you really want him to kill them.