Spenny

Spenny

Wait, I'm confused about the movie. So the cops knew that internal affairs were setting them up?

Favorite films

  • Possession
  • Clue
  • Jurassic Park
  • Vox Lux

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  • First Reformed

    ★★★★★

  • Don't Look Up

    ★★★½

  • The Prestige

    ★★★★★

  • 9/11: The Twin Towers

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  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    ★★★½

    It’s no Last Night (1998), but it’s still a great addition to the apocalyptic black-comedy genre.

  • Telling Nicholas

    Telling Nicholas

    ½

    Telling Nicholas offers a unique perspective, while being completely ethically bankrupt. Filming a seven-year-old who is unable to understand and consent to being the subject of this documentary during what is arguably the most traumatic moment of his life was…a choice. Charlie Minn is probably seething, because he didn’t think to do it first.

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  • The Great Mouse Detective

    The Great Mouse Detective

    ★★★★★

    Ratigan’s harp solo is some big dick energy.

  • Blue Valentine

    Blue Valentine

    ★★★★½

    I hadn’t watched this in about seven years because I was still healing from the emotional trauma wrought by my first viewing. Lately I’ve been feeling optimistic about love/relationships, so I figured it was time to re-watch BLUE VALENTINE because optimism = unfamiliar and frightening. Hello, darkness, my old friend…

    Cianfrance’s verisimilar depiction of the life cycle of one couple’s love is sweet without being sentimental, intimate without being voyeuristic, and heartbreaking without being manipulative. It’s beautiful, it’s ugly, it’s…