James Hart

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Favorite films

  • Stalker
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Phantom Thread

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  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

    ★★★★

  • Godzilla vs. Biollante

    ★★★½

  • Twilight

    ★★★★

  • Men Behind the Sun

    ★★½

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  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    ★★★★

    The fight for control of Chile between Fascists and Communists. The problems of the polarization of politics shows its colors. This is definitely a must watch. For one it’s an incredible achievement as both a journalistic and archival documentary. Also for the fact that it is still extremely poignant even today. This is also a symbol for the importance of freedom of the press. A cameraman for this film was actually shot and killed which spoiler alert we actually see…

  • Godzilla vs. Biollante

    Godzilla vs. Biollante

    ★★★½

    Ok this is just silly Kaiju fun. The characters speaking broken English with burned in Japanese subtitles, exchanging the anti nuclear war theme for anti bio engineering, giant monsters fighting. Everything you could possibly want is here. Is it fantastic? Absolutely not. But it’s such a time capsule for the late 80s early 90s and I had a blast. Definitely bloated and while the animatronics are super cool looking they definitely don’t allow for as much creativity in the action as just putting dudes in suits. Loved the miniatures.

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Some of the best political satire I’ve seen in a long time. What a hilarious film this is. I do think it falls short in dissecting certain characters but I personally didn’t find that to be the point. It’s pretty clear to me it is criticizing American politics to be the most obvious as Mark Ruffalo is pulling out this over the top Trump impression. Still I find that it could criticizes authoritarianism in general if I was watching it…

  • Ichi the Killer

    Ichi the Killer

    ★★★★★

    This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Going into this I had no idea what this was going to be. Well this is my new favorite Takashi Miike film over audition. This is as crazy as any other Takashi Miike film while also balancing some interesting tonal changes. This film constantly switches tones. From scene to scene it switches from comedic, to disturbing, to have some actual deep character drama. This to me sums up every…

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