Javen Oswald

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Favorite films

  • A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter

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  • The Butterfly Murders

    ★★½

  • Unstoppable

    ★★★★½

  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

    ★★★★

  • A Touch of Zen

    ★★★½

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  • Unstoppable

    Unstoppable

    ★★★★½

    And, oh, and take... take that vest off, too.

    Why?

    Just take it off. I don't wanna look out this window and see you in that yellow vest. It'll freak me out.

    The future of cinema comes barreling towards us as an unstoppable runaway train. Embodies everything of films on film and the movies of the late-2000s as they slowly adapt to the technological and digital revolution in Hollywood. Shot on 35mm - an impossibility for today’s Hollywood action films.…

  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

    The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

    ★★★★

    A guy who doesn’t know kung fu needs to learn kung fu, so we can watch some fucking awesome kung fu. That’s it.

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  • Society of the Snow

    Society of the Snow

    ½

    I haven’t been this bored by a movie in such a long time. You are given 10 minutes to get to know these characters prior to the plane crash - discounting the occasional disruptive 10 second flashback which takes away more than it adds. This movie relies more on shock factor than most superhero movies. Also, this picture  - if I can even call it that - is terribly paced. How tf is it over 2 hours long. There were moments an hour in where I thought I was getting towards the end.

  • Car Wash

    Car Wash

    ★★★★★

    One of the most heartbreaking moments in an otherwise lighthearted, jazzy film is when Lonnie’s kids come to visit him at work. His daughter bringing with a drawing of him at the car wash. A moment that on the surface is sweet but encapsulates everything Lonnie is fighting for and against: ends meet to support his family. And in the end where his daughter pictures him is not with the family but at the car wash because he is at…