Jess

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Favorite films

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

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • In the Lost Lands

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

    The Day the Earth Blew Up feels like it shouldn't exist, for a number of reasons. A traditionally animated feature-length film feels like an anachronism in 2025. Warner Brothers decided they didn't want it, and dumped it to Ketchup Entertainment instead of putting it on Max. But boy am I glad they did.

    Please see this movie. It's like a warm hug - the animation, the humor, the music (including an appearance from Power House, that factory music!), it all…

  • 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…

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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…