Jay

Jay

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future Part III
  • Halloween
  • A Touch of Zen
  • Miami Connection

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  • Porco Rosso

    ★★★★★

  • To the Limit

    ★★½

  • Scared to Death

    ★★

  • Scared to Death

    ★★

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  • Porco Rosso

    Porco Rosso

    ★★★★★

    Yeah, this is a classic. Michael Keaton and Cary Elwes do great work in the English dub.

  • What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    ★★★½

    "Lower Decks" is the reason why after avoiding "Star Trek" in most forms my whole life (I did watch Abrams' two Trek movies in my 20s, and "Into Darkness" did not help) I finally dove into Trek in my mid-30s. I was introduced to "Lower Decks" thanks to "Carlinspace" Garcia on Twitter doing his own dive into Trek and other sci-fi series, but one detour in his years-long journey into Roddenberry's creation and its many offspring was this documentary, which…

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  • In the Dark

    In the Dark

    ★★★★

    A new-to-town librarian, bored out of her mind, finds herself drawn into a weird game with increasingly large cash prizes and no real motive or end-goal, only communicating with the Master of Games via letters and then writing on her body. It only gets creepier from there.

    This might be the best SOV movie I've seen, an earnest attempt to adapt a now-forgotten novel by a guy named Richard Laymon. (I have never heard of him until coming across this.)…

  • Skinamarink

    Skinamarink

    ★★★½

    Full Disclosure: In 2021, Kyle Edward Ball sent me a DM on Twitter asking if I'd donate to his feature film project "Skinamarink." Being a fan of his YouTube channel output, including the short film "Heck" that "Skinamarink" is based on, I happily contributed to this project. The finished film is an amazing experiment in mood and tension setting.

    This film operates on, and almost perfectly recreates, Childhood Nightmare Logic: What you found scary when you were in Kindergarten. I…

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