Jim Penola

Jim Penola

Favorite films

  • The Invitation
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • The Shape of Water
  • Almost Holy

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  • Monster Hunter

  • Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson

    ★★★★★

  • Frogman

  • Snake Eyes

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  • Monster Hunter

    Monster Hunter

    The action is clear and Paul W.S. Anderson makes some interesting shot choices! Let him direct the inevitable REIGN OF FIRE reboot I say.

    There’s a scene where Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa basically re-enact the “Princess Leia offers Wicket some food” scene from JEDI so MONSTER HUNTER gets a like.

  • Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson

    Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson

    ★★★★★

    “They seek delay, we seek justice.”

    I was a huge Michael Jackson fan for most of my life until I watched LEAVING NEVERLAND (2019) and used the most rudimentary critical thinking and empathic tools at my mental disposal to rule that the deceased pop star was a serial abuser.

    I’m ready to hurl Jackson’s lawyers and their souless foot soldiers* into the sun. While Part II is much, much shorter and even pads some of that runtime with the same…

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  • Presence

    Presence

    ★★★★★

    I was bawling during the final minutes. 

    The film on its own is enough but spooky shit happened during my solitary midnight viewing in the objectively haunted city I live in (Savannah) that I will never forget (wow my vacuum cleaner just decided to turn on for no reason at all during the climax for the first time ever!!!)

    WTF.

    “Embrace the mystery” to quote A SERIOUS MAN. 

    anyway, 5/5

  • Rap World

    Rap World

    ★★★★★

    “Jim, stop having an existential crisis”
    My co-worker to me as I watch, in disbelief, the last 7 minutes of RAP WORLD.