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Favorite films

  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Crime Wave
  • Back to the Future
  • High and Low

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  • The Order

    ★★★½

  • Ash

    ★½

  • Mister America

    ★★★½

  • Night Moves

    ★★★★½

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  • The Order

    The Order

    ★★★½

    Solid cast. Solid script. Nothing wholly exceptional just a solid thriller.

  • Ash

    Ash

    ★½

    If In The Lost Lands is PlayStation 3-coded, this film is Xbox One-coded. Taking obvious inspiration from Dead Space, Alien Isolation, Resident Evil, plus probably a sprinkle of Doom and Prey. I certainly wouldn’t mind all the nods and homages if the film ever really elevated above it. Just a sequence of tropes from all your favorite 2010s videogames with the same kind of visual incoherence of a mid-budget videogame trying to emulate said games. Except instead of a playable videogame, this…

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  • The Beach Boys

    The Beach Boys

    ★★½

    Hi, I traveled to New York City to watch this softball documentary of this incredibly strange old band on a 100-foot IMAX screen because that’s just the type of unloveable loser I am. 

    I’ve had to rewrite this a few times because I’m such a nerd and just wanted to endlessly go off about what the documentary DOESN’T cover more than it does. A two-hour movie is just not the right vessel to tell all 50 years of The Beach…

  • Madame Web

    Madame Web

    ★★½

    Wow there is a lot I want to say about this. I really don’t even know where to begin. What is this movie? Why are we here? What do the filmmakers and studio want us to feel? At its core is a kinda cool story? It’s The Terminator but with a legally distinct evil spider person hunting down three teens who will in the future become spider women, and the one woman who can protect them has Butterfly Effect/Final Destination…

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