Jeff Grant

Jeff Grant

Why is validating your email on Letterboxd the most difficult thing you will ever do in your life?

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Boyhood
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★★

  • In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

    ★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Steven Soderbergh’s new spy thriller has an incredible cast, led by Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a married spy couple. He finds out there’s a traitor on the spy team and needs to figure out who it is, wondering if it could be his wife! This isn’t a big, action movie but more about quiet conversations in rooms. How do you tell the truth when lying is your job? (I think that’s a direct quote, or something similar) This…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    As many know, South Korean writer/director Bong Joon-ho’s previous movie, Parasite, won both the Palme d’Or at Cannes and Best Picture at the Oscars (the first non-English film to pull that off). It’s one of the best movies of the last decade and one I somehow bought three times and somehow don’t regret it. Needless to say, there’s been a lot of curiosity about how he’d follow it up.

    Mickey 17 tells the sci-fi story of a man (Robert Pattinson)…

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  • Rear Window

    Rear Window

    ★★★★★

    Yeah, I’d seen this one a few times already, and even own it, but when I saw some showings this week for its 70th(!) anniversary I thought it’d be fun to catch it on the big screen for once. What a treat! This is possibly my favorite Hitchcock movie. I love the giant courtyard set they built to fill with neighbors for Jimmy Stewart to spy on. It feels like you’re watching the original Facebook detective, paying way too much…

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    Incredibly well made but too scary for me.

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