Jess Byard

Jess Byard

Favorite films

  • Blue Velvet
  • Videodrome
  • Blow Out
  • Sunset Boulevard

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  • Heretic

    ★★★★

  • AquaSlash

    ★½

  • Gothic

    ★★★½

  • Cannibal Apocalypse

    ★★½

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  • Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    ★★

    CGI you’ve seen before. Godzilla spends most of the movie traveling the world, Kong spends most of the time in a watered down Planet of the Apes plot. All of the human characters are incredibly one dimensional and the dialogue is so phoned in.

  • Under Paris

    Under Paris

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Reincarnation

    Reincarnation

    ★★★

    Seriously, fuck that doll...

  • Marathon Man

    Marathon Man

    ★★★★

    The 70s - a wild west of exploitation, sleaze, and political intrigue. Dustin Hoffman - and actor I decidedly can't make up my mind about - is Babe, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. His brother Doc, played by the always charming Roy Scheider, inadvertently gets them both tangled up with a Nazi war criminal and part-time dentist.

    There is something incredibly intricate and tangible about 1970s thrillers. They often exceed a 2-hour run time but from the second the…