Jan Nelson

Jan Nelson

Musician. Professor. Film and TV Nerd. Aspiring Wine Connoisseur. Sporadic Knitter. Staunch Supporter of the Oxford Comma.

Favorite films

  • Hot Fuzz
  • Clue
  • Pride
  • Molly's Game

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  • Interstellar

    ★★★★½

  • Scrooged

    ★★★★

  • Arthur Christmas

    ★★★½

  • Die Hard

    ★★★★★

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  • Wolfs

    Wolfs

    ★★★

    A competent movie with no handle on tone whatsoever. Austin Abrams is pretty phenomenal though.

  • Coraline

    Coraline

    ★★★★★

    Best use of 3-D in cinema history. Fight me.

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  • The 355

    The 355

    ★★

    Is it really too much to ask Chastain and Kruger’s characters to bone down at the end of the movie? I mean, it was loooooooong. Let them be happy.

  • Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

    Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

    ★★★★

    It’s nice to see decent people talk about artistic integrity while defending dick jokes.

    Some thoughts:

    Louie CK is conspicuously absent from the interviews. I have done zero research, but I can’t just assume that’s scheduling. I know Louie is busy, but busier than Steve Carrell? Doubtful. Bill Hader is a delightful, albeit unnecessary, consolation prize.

    The moment when they watch the preview of the “very special episode” of Home Improvement that served as their lead-in destroyed me. I can’t…

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