Jack Ashby

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Just typing into the void.

Favorite films

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Jaws
  • Before Sunrise
  • After Hours

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  • You People

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • Another Round

    ★★★★

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  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

    From that first freeze frame and needle drop at the end of Ray Liotta’s opening narration all the way to that final look in the camera, everything about GoodFellas is undeniably iconic. The way Martin Scorsese immerses the audience in the rise and fall of Henry Hill is increasingly both enthralling and distressing. While the film follows Hill and is told mostly from his perspective, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro each masterfully play two sides of the gangster archetype…

  • Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park

    ★★★★★

    I think if there's one film I could go back and watch for the first time, it would be this one. Despite seeing this film many times over the years, the unassailable tension found in Jurassic Park remains as strong and enjoyable as ever. From the first frames of this film Steven Spielberg imparts an unease as though the viewer themselves are being watched, and within minutes the sensation of being hunted is terrifyingly introduced. Following an emphatic opening, things…

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  • You People

    You People

    ★★½

    Had me for a little, ended up losing me pretty bad. Jonah Hill looks older than Julia Louis-Dreyfus in this, and she’s playing his mom.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    A fun, albeit flawed, film that feels both a little too specific and a little too wide-ranging to ever feel like it gets to "great" (or even completely coherent really). There's a lot of storylines and inputs here that are all wildly interesting and entertaining on their own, but when smashed together you never get the chance to fully invest in any of them. All of the themes felt consistent with Bong's style and were clearly conveyed as the man…

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

    yea absolutely nobody matching this movie’s freak lmao. Freaky in multitudes, one might say. 

    Insane cinematography and an unflinching cultivation of atmosphere from Eggers culminates in horrifying and disturbingly alluring drama, all sold to hell and back by Lily Rose-Depp. This watch highlighted just how incredible Eggers’ direction is, as the camerawork seamlessly blends tragedy and fate as continuous and broken shots weave together to tell this haunting tale. A deeply unsettling work that pulls what it needs to from…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    I started my Dune: Part 1 review by saying “This might not exactly be the Dune I had envisioned, but I think I still love it nonetheless.” Now, I can confidently say that although this is still not quite the Dune that I envisioned, I emphatically love both of these films and what they do for the world of Dune.

    Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 2 is, to put it simply, an absolute spectacle to behold. It is likely the film…