myles westman

myles westman

Favorite films

  • Contact
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Liquidity Inc.
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

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  • The African Desperate

    ★★★★★

  • Minions: The Rise of Gru

    ★★★★

  • Minions: The Rise of Gru

    ★★★★

  • Benedetta

    ½

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  • Minions: The Rise of Gru

    Minions: The Rise of Gru

    ★★★★

    Best watched stoned w sum beers n ur bros, easy breezy plot, questionable racial politics, incomprehensible minion gender ideology, food for thought for all the family :)

    Maybe it broke new ground in children’s cinema maybe not, I had a good time x

  • Benedetta

    Benedetta

    ½

    Paul Verhoeven really hates women and he keeps finding (old) ways to tell us. 

    This storytelling task could’ve been executed incredibly; Benedetta Carlini is one of the most interesting Christian figures of all time, emerging from a fascinating moment in European history, and now if ever is a great time for her story to be retold - but that task requires nuance, care, subtlety, precision and hmm maybe a sense of adjacency to or lived experience of being queer /…

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  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★

    this one’s for incels and vanilla film bros sorry…

    it had so much potential to be substantially angsty n gritty n sexy - a younger and more psychologically complex response to Nolan’s gloomy Dark Knight perhaps. considering it’s clearly aesthetically concerned with social realism, perhaps the script could have engaged meaningfully with contemporary social issues, carefully considered what it means to be a white billionaire orphan vigilante, how wealth hoarding and corruption produces poverty that can tear apart communities and…

  • My Own Private Idaho

    My Own Private Idaho

    ★★★★★

    Always just HITS, on one axis is a clapboard house falling from the sky and on another is the road that probably goes all around the world. And where they meet lies this young narcoleptic hustler trying to find or hold onto the few things in the landscape that remain solid or finite. Things like family, money, companionship, consciousness, and a sense of belonging. The result is dissatisfying, the house is in tatters, the road never ends, Mike’s ongoing discomfort precludes…

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