JoshuaMinh

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I've loved movies since I was a young kid, and my love has only grown for them over these many years.

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Flight of the Phoenix 2004

★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

I've never seen the original 1965 movie starring James Stewart or read the novel by Elleston Trevor this movie is based off of, so I can't say whether either are better than this movie. What I can say is that this is a really exciting film with a terrifying plane crash, a terrific cast, and some fairly tense and sad moments. The desert setting looks beautiful and harsh at the same time. The environment is brutal. You can just feel…
Down Low 2023

★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

This is exactly what I needed after a long week of meetings, meetings, trainings, paperwork, students, and more meetings. I'm pretty sure my neighbors could hear me laughing during this very dark and twisted comedy that went places I was just not expecting. It was hilarious at times, moving at other times, and strangely very sweet throughout.
Quinto and Gage were fantastic, and Simon Rex continues his comeback as a character who starts out fairly weird and benign and then…

An Almost Ordinary Summer 2019

★★★★ Added

It's very rare to find an LGBTQ+ film that focuses on those older than 40, so when it happens, it's wonderful to see. This Italian film is about two men who gather their respective families for an extended summer vacation. During this time, they plan on letting their families know that 1.) they are a couple, and 2.) they are engaged to be married. Of course, nothing goes as planned and the summer goes way off course.
This is a…
Love! Valour! Compassion! 1997

★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jun 2021 3

I remember the very first time I saw this movie. I was living in Clovis, California, and I went to the art house movie theater in Fresno to see it during it's week long run. I immediately found the movie to be touching, funny, sad, moving, and filled with moments of tenderness and beauty between men. It wasn't something I was used to seeing whether it was a couple lovingly trimming each other's ear hair or one man tenderly giving…