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  • Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

  • The Menu

    ★★★★

  • 127 Hours

    ★★★★★

  • The Peanut Butter Falcon

    ★★★★

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  • Trainspotting

    Trainspotting

    ★★★★★

    Another Danny Boyle movie, another fun watch.  This time instead of an Utah wilderness or Mumbai, he takes us to urban Scotland with Ewan Mcgregor before he was Obi Wan Kenobi playing the heroine addict Mark Renton and his friends stuck in a vicious cycle of stealing, selling the stuff, and shooting up because as he says in the beginning their live suck so much there’s nothing better to do than turn to heroine.  At least that’s until he’s finally…

  • The Menu

    The Menu

    ★★★★

    Even though the “eat the rich” attitude has become so commmon of a message in movies and TV in the last few years, when it is done well it turns into a good watch and this definitely did it well.  Specifically fitting each main character of the rich guests so perfectly into their niche, almost cliche roles so much and the actors do such a good job that you hate them from the start and how condescending they are to…

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  • 127 Hours

    127 Hours

    ★★★★★

    There’s nothing like a good man vs nature survival story.  This is always a good rewatch partly for the survival aspect, but partly because the talent in front and behind the camera is killing it.  James Franco has one of his best performances of his career playing Aaron Ralston who gradually gets more and more desperate as his time slowly but surely runs out just like his hope of escaping a would be grave in a literal hole in the…

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