Nathan

Nathan

Favorite films

  • Alien
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
  • Room 237
  • My Neighbor Totoro

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  • One of Them Days

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★★

  • Civil War

    ★★★

  • Last Night in Soho

    ★★

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  • One of Them Days

    One of Them Days

    Using slavery to haggle someone down on Nike's is a very Facebook Marketplace thing to do.

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★★

    It’s fine. Miller’s vision and meticulous action set pieces are unique and I’m glad I got to inhabit the grisly world of the Wasteland one more time. But you can tell the studio opted for Fury Road; a focused, lean, extended chase film with a fully realized Furiosa and Max, the franchise character, for a reason. 

    I can see not wanting to waste a fully finished script and Miller’s ability to direct one more action spectacle, there are some incredible…

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  • Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

    ★★

    After one genuinely beautiful 60s dream sequence and creative doubling of Thomasin walking in the footsteps of Anya's character 'Sandy', Soho becomes shockingly empty and repetitive. Edgar is more interested in telling us he likes Italian horror than saying anything at all to justify Soho's existence as anything more than a vanity project in his masturbatory rolodex of interests. This one sits nicely next to "Did you know I liked Sparks brothers before it was cool"? Hell even his list…

  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★★

    Sometimes Civil War is very stupid, but because of the ambiguity (the film’s clear biggest strength) it is begging the audience to try and engage with their own bias and sort out what this thing even is. All you are left with is watching the movie scene for scene. The film tempts the audience to be just as dumb and frustrated with the lack of current events to reframe the narrative of the film to make sense to their politics.…

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