Script supervisor, occasional producer, reformed screenwriter, lifelong cinephile. Making pictures move in Austin, TX.
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Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025
Deeply disappointing content slop from one of America's best filmmakers. Limited Hangout: The Movie.
In terms of the story, it barely skims the surface and seems more interested in the grisly details of who stabbed who where than the central, provocative thesis of O'Neill's great book and all its attendant threads. Jolly West treated as a mere curious person of interest (and ignoring that after Ruby, he "treated" Sirhan Sirhan); no mention of Reeve Whitson the undercover CIA agent who…
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Incident 2023
The best film of 2024. Essential viewing for this moment and also perpetually relevant any time in the last century.
Yes, the titular incident is worth bearing witness to both for what it reveals about the operations of the machine that murders innocent people as a matter of daily routine then protects the killers and attacks the community for having the audacity to protest the violence they’ve wrought and as a remembrance of the slain man, father, barber, son.
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Revolutionary Road 2008
Perhaps the most underappreciated Hollywood film of the last several years. A brilliant realization of a novel on the level of Gatsby, Lolita, and Sirens of Titan with career best performances from DiCaprio, Winslet, and the remarkable Michael Shannon. I've seen it only once since it's such a hard experience to relive, but it shook me to my core and hasn't left my thoughts for long since. In short, a masterpiece.
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God Bless America 2011
What would happen if you gave an angsty, misanthropic 14-year-old with no storytelling experience the opportunity to utilize sixth-rate community theater performers to act out his adolescent revenge fantasies and serve as a mouthpiece for his obnoxious rantings for nearly two hours? God Bless America.
Neither a dark comedy nor a satire (since both require some degree of humor), GBA is instead little more than being told things everyone already knows--Reality TV is stupid?! Fox News cynically riles people up?!…
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