Jess

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Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Memento
  • The Rock
  • Stop Making Sense

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • In the Lost Lands

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Magazine Dreams

    ★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    I've seen a lot of people say that Mickey 17 is the satire that they need in these troubling times. I am not one of those people.

    Mind you, I don't know that I'm always going to feel this way - I'm already circling a date on my calendar in, like, five years to revisit the movie - but right now? Almost uncomfortable viewing. The satire is so on the nose and obviously influenced by current American politics that I…

  • In the Lost Lands

    In the Lost Lands

    This probably would have been considered a banger in 2007. Unfortunately for everybody involved with In the Lost Lands, it's been nearly 20 years, and we've come pretty far in that time.

    Where to begin? The film is ugly as sin, completely awash in yellowish browns, which at least looked unique when Zach Snyder did it for 300 two decades ago. Here, especially when paired with some incredibly bad CGI, it just looks terrible. And the CGI is distractingly bad…

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  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Fucking seagull Jesus.

  • Magazine Dreams

    Magazine Dreams

    ★½

    Coming to Magazine Dreams more than two years after its Sundance premiere, notably after it was picked up and dropped by Searchlight because of Jonathan Majors' legal issues and general shitbaggery, I have to ask - did I see the same movie as everybody else?

    Like, legitimately, did I see the same movie. I have differing opinions on the film, but I'm seriously starting to wonder if, given everything surrounding Majors and him being absolutely toxic in Hollywood right now…