jayzombie

jayzombie

Photographer & Creative Strategist

Favorite films

  • Before Sunrise
  • Empire Records
  • Spirited Away
  • Pan's Labyrinth

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  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • Napoleon Dynamite

    ★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★½

  • Inside Out 2

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    Intimate. Heartbreaking. Beautifully filmed and told. I kept thinking about my great grandparents who fled everything they knew in Ukraine before the war for the freedom promised in America. Their hardships, their struggles; the ways they broke, rebuilt, and broke again all for their family and the freedom to openly express their Jewishness.

    Call me an idiot, but I needed the epilogue, so I’m grateful it was there to cut through the tension while breaking my heart into a thousand pieces.

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★½

    A film that needed to be seen in a movie theater to be truly appreciated. I was too focused on the plot when I should have given myself a lobotomy a la The Boys and simply enjoyed for the loud, absurd prequel everyone who loved Fury Road asked for.

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  • Madame Web

    Madame Web

    ★★

    The second star in my rating is based on the fact that it somehow wasn’t worse than Morbius or Wonder Woman 1984. This is a movie where the executives likely took something pretty good, gobbled it up, shit their messy interpretation out on a mahogany desk somewhere in Culver City, and spent the next 3 months taking turns polishing it until it was a shiny little turd that they thought audiences would want to swallow. 

    None of the actors seemed…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    Had me in the first half, lost me around the Six Flags Old Man, pulled me back in HARD the end.

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