James Hamrick

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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • The Master
  • The Godfather
  • High and Low

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  • Moneyball

    ★★★★

  • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

    ★★★½

  • Superman: The Last Son of Krypton

    ★★★

  • Rocky IV

    ★★½

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  • Moneyball

    Moneyball

    ★★★★

    “How can you not be romantic about baseball?”
    -Me, everytime I rewatch Space Jam

  • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

    Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

    ★★★½

    This is my platonic ideal Batman. When the animated crew gets a budget and a runtime longer than 20 minutes, and a little leeway in content, they create the definitive version of Batman. 

    So far, there’s so much more emotional and tonal maturity in the animated films from the Timmverse than the later established animated universe which tends to have the maturity of a Hot Topic storefront.

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  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★½

    I hate himbo Thor, I hate Volume technology, I hate making every god the exact same brand of dumb, I hate rushing through scenes of dialogue a mile a minute. I LOVE Christian Bale and he’s incapable of doing any wrong onscreen

    It cannot be overstated how much I miss Branagh and the vibe of Thor 1. I love that movie so much and wish Thor got to be to Branagh what Cap was to the Russo’s.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    “You are like the storytellers of old, returning from far lands with spellbinding tales.”

    Roger Ebert said this of his dear friend, Werner Herzog, and it’s how I feel about Eggers. He is a man who reaches back in time and brings us artifacts of a time and place almost perfectly preserved. He sacrifices almost everything on the alter of historicity. He is slavishly subservient to his material. And it’s like that severity infects his cast because the powerful performances…