John Warrender

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Favorite films

  • Die Hard
  • The Matrix
  • Ran
  • Altered States

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  • Companion

    ★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★½

  • Better Man

    ★★★½

  • The Celebration

    ★★★★

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  • Companion

    Companion

    ★★★

    Diverting enough, but even with this short run-time you can feel the energy dissipate with about 15 minutes to go. Worth watching as an essential chapter in the story of Sophie Thatcher eventually running the world.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★½

    Garth Marenghi’s masterpiece.

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  • Agora

    Agora

    ★★★★½

    Alejandro Amenábar’s ambitious, big-budget biopic of philosopher Hypatia – The Passion of the Christ for atheists – struggled to find distributors around the world, was dumped into cinemas with barely any publicity, and was criticised by Catholic groups in Spain for defaming Christianity: the polar opposite of Mel Gibson’s berserk Passion Play. Who knows why audiences didn’t connect with this tragic epic: it has the requisite visual wow-factor, moves at a clip, and is easily accessible.

    Perhaps no one wants…

  • Atlas Shrugged: Part I

    Atlas Shrugged: Part I

    ½

    The book Atlas Shrugged is a vile thing partially redeemed by the rubberneck value of seeing an author’s scarred psyche and bigotry transformed into a meticulously thought-out yet repellent philosophy that denies the existence of abstract beauty or humanity. Reading it is an alternately hilarious and disturbing experience, but it helps you understand the workings of the moneymen who arrogantly and incorrectly assume that their blind luck and ruthlessness in gaming the system is evidence of their Übermenschian superiority over…