Video Jim

Video Jim

Favorite films

  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Unforgiven
  • High and Low
  • Showing Up

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  • The Lost City

    ★★★

  • Time Bandits

    ★★★½

  • The Bridges of Madison County

    ★★★★½

  • The Searchers

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  • The Lost City

    The Lost City

    ★★★

    Is this better than Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? Maybe.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Pattinson is really really good in this and this is worth seeing for his performance(s) alone.

    As for the movie itself? Sometimes deeply funny and philosophically engaging, other times it’s tacky and meandering. It can be fun to see a master of their craft make a sprawling, messy work like this. And this was certainly fun. I’m glad he followed up Parasite with something so strange and different.

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  • The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    ★★★★★

    Spielberg frames his movie camera as the ultimate truth teller and the ultimate fantasy machine. A tool for both coping with and creating reality. Sammy Fabelman is a glimpse of Spielberg in a mirror, out-of-body, filming the impossible to process memories.

    When frightened by a movie scene that won’t stop replaying in his head, Sammy takes control of his fear by filming it himself over and over and over. He examines the intricacies of his parents relationship through the lens…

  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    ★★★½

    Marking the end of Marvel’s Phase 4 and the first Black Panther sequel without the original’s lead, Wakanda Forever is a well directed and acted sequel that confronts the loss of Chadwick Boseman and T’challa. 

    The performances are authentic and you can feel the loss in each of the actors as they perform the scenes in the movies first few moments. Letitia Wright in particular does a fantastic job leading the cast. The cold open is really terrific and immediately…

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