jess mak

jess mak

Favorite films

  • Blow Out
  • After Hours
  • Frances Ha
  • Eraserhead

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  • Phantom of the Paradise

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • To the Lighthouse

    ★½

  • Videodrome

    ★★★½

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  • Phantom of the Paradise

    Phantom of the Paradise

    ★★★½

    Loved the campiness and seeing inside an earlier brain of De Palma. Paul Williams with an impeccable and very 70’s score. I’d be haunting Phoenix too. She’s THAT GIRL!!

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    underwhelmed by the set design + plot + hard dolby atmos panning + the andy weir of it all.
    some really funny moments but not sure if that makes up for a movie that left me feeling very little?? up a half star for mark ruffalo’s fake teeth

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★

    visually stunning but also the most awkward and stunted script… no relationship was fleshed out AT ALL and the characters were so shockingly one-dimensional. the trailer was more interesting than the actual movie 🤦‍♀️

  • Videodrome

    Videodrome

    ★★★½

    gahhhhhh i wanted to like this so bad because every movie bro ever was at my screening… guys with beards were wearing VIDEODROME SHIRTS! maybe that was the first red flag? felt like this film hit me over the head with its themes?? blondie needed more screentime!! enjoyed the cronenberg of it all, sadly underwhelmed by shore’s score here (esp after watching after hours!). favorite moment was when guy’s body exploded. yuck!

    wikipedia highlights:
    The undulating screen of the television…

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