Jameson Draper

Jameson Draper

somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this #typeshit

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • The Big Lebowski
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • Notorious

    ★★★★½

  • The Swimmer

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Autumn Sonata

    ★★★★½

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  • Notorious

    Notorious

    ★★★★½

    My  2025 Hitchcock run continues with what I think might be his most underrated film. I thought TO CATCH A THIEF and DIAL M FOR MURDER were great for what they wanted to be but nothing too special. We all know the greatness of VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST and REAR WINDOW, but I think NOSTALGIA belongs in that category. It's certainly his best early film, from his black and white era.

    Sometimes old movies, as great as they are, suffer…

  • The Swimmer

    The Swimmer

    ★★★½

    I'd been meaning to watch this movie for a while because The Swimmer is one of my favorite short stories ever. It's always hard to divorce a movie from its source material when I'm such a huge fan of said source material (see: John Huston's THE DEAD), but I try anyway.

    This is a self-contained story from the waning halcyon days of American suburbia, when the white picket fences started to rot and falter, and everyone realizes what's happening except…

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    MICKEY 17 is a heavy-handed and superficial take on fascism and the soulless dystopia it creates. What made Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE so great is both the profundity with which it meditates upon the class struggle and the heartbreaking reveal at the end; it's not an innovative take on world politics but a raw, slice-of-life display that humanizes the struggle. MICKEY 17 is larger in scope and quite literally otherworldly-- with a riveting plot idea about the expendable nature of lower-class…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.