johrdahn

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Designer | Illustrator | Nilla wafer enthusiast | Semi-functioning adult

Favorite films

  • The Lion King
  • Malcolm X
  • Blade Runner
  • Mad Max: Fury Road

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Crooklyn

    ★★★★

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★½

  • Wolfwalkers

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    A great concept that I feel loses steam in the second act and meanders its way into a serviceable third, but there’s this, Charlie Chaplin in space, energy to the movie and Robert Patterson’s performance that I really appreciated. That alone made it worth the watch.

    The film’s depiction of billionaire space exploration as the gilded age nightmare it most certainly would be and the woeful labor exploration that comes with it, feels like a reality that’s stranger than fiction,…

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★½

    … sure.

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  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

    Three Thousand Years of Longing

    ★★★½

    I love storytelling — myths, fables and fairytales being my absolute favorite. Naturally I love stories about storytelling — I love it’s origins as a way for our earliest ancestors to give shape to a frightening and mysterious world, to make it smaller. Most of all, I love the power that stories wield.

    Storytelling is literal magic; it has the power to alter one’s perception of the world around them. The root word for grimoire is grammar — a grimoire…

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★½

    I wanted to love this movie, so much. I had my finger on the button, ready to give it four/five starts as soon as I pressed play. However, I think Robert Eggers’ reverence and admiration for the original 1920s silent German expressionist film, in my opinion, gets in the way and feels a bit too precious.

    Eggers’ interpretation is a technical masterclass — visually rich, meticulous, and dense. The sound design is thick, crunchy, and slurpy in all the right…