Jonathan Bannister

Jonathan Bannister

Favorite films

  • Out of Sight
  • The Fog
  • Phantom of the Paradise
  • O.C. and Stiggs

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  • Bat★21

    ★★½

  • The Beekeeper

    ★★½

  • In the Lost Lands

    ★½

  • Longlegs

    ★★★½

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  • Cleaner

    Cleaner

    ★★★½

    I enjoyed this. A decent afternoon programmer. You can tell the constraints of the budget by the stationary locales within the building and the fact that Ridley's character spends most of the time outside in one spot. When the action does happen, Campbell is as sure as always.

    Better character work than you might expect with this sort of thing and I'd like to see Ridley in more action vehicles. The politics of it all is a little too heavy-handed and over the top. With a few tweaks I think this would've been really good.

  • Heart Eyes

    Heart Eyes

    ★★★★

    I had tons of fun watching Heart Eyes last night. The structure of a rom com "date from hell/long night" with genuine laughs, wrapped in a 90s slasher, with gruesome kills, fun chemistry between the leads, and performances where everyone has cranked the knob just a tad. A successful tightrope walk.

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  • The Frontier

    The Frontier

    ★★★★

    As in most crime films, money is the ultimate goal in this neo-noir from Oren Shai. The Bible tells us the love of money is the root of all evil, and the characters that populate this story have let their love corrupt their entire beings. For them, there is no other way out but cold hard cash. As a result, when things take their inevitable violent turn, only the money matters. Everything and everyone else comes second.

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  • Mandy

    Mandy

    ★★★★★

    Holy. Shit.