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Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Oppenheimer
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Dazed and Confused

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  • My Old Ass

    ★★★½

  • Michael Clayton

    ★★

  • Runaway Jury

    ★★★½

  • Game Night

    ★★★★½

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  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★★

    Gladiator isn't just a cult classic, it's a classic. Full Stop. Somewhere in the world if you turn on the TV, flick through the channels, chances are you might catch the last twenty minutes. It's maybe the greatest example of what blockbusters used to be.

    But in the year of our lord 2024, blockbusters have changed, and chances are if you're on this platform, they've changed for the worse. So how do you revisit and revive such a monumental film?…

  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★★½

    My RE classes were exactly like this

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  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City

    ★★★★

    Wes Anderson likes to keep his audience at a distance. It’s hard to imagine a big emotional scene with a character crying their eyes out in a Wes film, because there isn’t one. Everything in crafted, perfectly designed down to the precise angle of a bow tie, or the timing of a blink through a manacle. The inherent disorder to an emotional breakdown is the anthesis of this precise planning, so he avoids them.

    Asteroid City is no exception to…

  • Minari

    Minari

    ★★★★½

    Named after a resilient Korean herb that will grow no matter what ground it’s planted on, Minari follows a Korean family assimilating into their new home – rural Arkansas. Partly based off his own life, writer and director Lee Isaac Chung first and foremost tells the story of a family, a work obsessed father who will stop at nothing to reach his dream of owning his own farm, a grandma reconnecting with her family and forming a jovial connection with…