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kingnickish

Favorite films

  • Hot Fuzz
  • Spirited Away
  • The Birdcage
  • Perfect Days

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  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

    ★★★★★

  • Fresh Kill

  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    ★★★★★

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    ★★½

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  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

    Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

    ★★★★★

    This movie is a 5/5 if you watch it along with the ‘Til Death do us Blart podcast every year

  • Fresh Kill

    Fresh Kill

    Like watching queer 80’s beat poetry and a music video all at once. Strikingly shot, thoughtful & very surprising. It would feel odd to rate this out of 5 stars, so I won’t even try. It was a wonderful experience and I look forward to visiting more of Cheang’s filmography.

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★½

    Longlegs is 2/3 masterpiece and 1/3 of the same, cheesy horror that can be found in 10 other horror films every year. At least those films understand what they’re aiming for. At least Longlegs has the decency to break itself up into parts, so you know just when things lost their flavor. 

    Much of the movie is very well done. Maika Monroe gives a subtle yet convincing performance as a stunted “semi-psychic” FBI agent that you can’t help but root…

  • Labyrinth

    Labyrinth

    ★★★★½

    I had seen Labyrinth sometime far back in my childhood. I recalled a few of the David Bowie music numbers, and some of the puppets, but not much beyond that.

    Rewatching as an adult was different than I thought it would be. First, the puppetry at this scale is incredibly impressive. The volume of puppets and the uniqueness of their individual designs seem difficult enough to produce, let alone to puppeteer for some of the complex scene required in a…

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