Jacob Gray

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Cheers to film and all it does for us

Favorite films

  • Thief
  • Casino
  • After Hours
  • Oldboy

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  • The Lovely Bones

    ★★½

  • Office Killer

    ★★

  • Matchstick Men

    ★★★½

  • Knight and Day

    ★★½

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  • The Lovely Bones

    The Lovely Bones

    ★★½

    Stanley Tucci, you bastard. You did such a disservice to the mustache community in this film. 

    The first thirty minutes of The Lovely Bones are gripping and quite unsettling (specifically the cornfield scene.) I will be playing that scene on a loop to my future children as a “what not to do in this situation” guide. 

    After the initial murder, the weird purgatory/ghost business was way too much. I loved eventually seeing Tucci take a head dive but the rest of this film was a dud. Saoirse Ronan however is not grouped in with my “dud” comment. She is always such a delight on screen.

  • Office Killer

    Office Killer

    ★★

    All of this because of remote work?!? I guess she truly was a psychopath.

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  • Possessor

    Possessor

    ★★★★½

    I was floored by this in such an unexpected way. 

    I cannot believe how much I ate this film up. It reminded me of a longer and much more disturbing Black Mirror episode. It was so stylistically unique and the visual representations of the struggle between host body and possessor were quite unsettling. I was also taken aback at how gruesome some of the kills were in this. Kudos to Cronenberg.

    This was a hell of a watch to end my weekend on and I am more than excited to see Brandon Cronenberg’s next film, Infinity Pool, when it comes out in 2023.

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    A religious experience for film lovers everywhere.

    I’m not sure that I have ever had a viewing experience quite like Dune: Part Two. Denis took one of the single grandest achievements in sci-fi filmmaking in Dune and somehow blew it completely out of the water both visually and conceptually. The scale of this film was something that I couldn't have prepared for, and somehow, I have a feeling it will only escalate during the Holy War.

    Chalamet's character, Paul, has…