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Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • Children of Men
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Zodiac

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  • Fail Safe

    ★★★★

  • Best in Show

    ★★★★★

  • The Ice Storm

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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  • After Hours

    After Hours

    ★★★★

    Dating in your 30s is exactly this wild. Scorsese is undefeated.

  • Rounders

    Rounders

    ★★★★★

    “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, you ARE the sucker.”

    I’ve seen this beaut about 20 times in my life. I know it front to back. However the greatest pleasure about this hidden gem is showing it to someone who has never even heard of it. Not only is the cinematography brilliant, but score paired with the script is absolutely perfectly in tune creating a musical masterpiece.

    I…

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  • The Ice Storm

    The Ice Storm

    ★★★★

    The ice storm is a fucked up family special. What well written, well acted downer of a movie. Ang Lee, I did not know you messed around like that.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    A little long but in true Bong fashion a fun goofy action satire that makes a statement on the current moment.

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

    Bonkers. Absolutely bonkers. A film that drives you to a cliff, telling a disturbing tale full of self hatred that is actually really chilling. The SOUND DESIGN, the cinematography, the production design all of it is unsettling. Then it gleefully throws you off that cliff and laughs at you. Very exciting filmmaking. Season tickets to Coralie Fargeat.

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    Okay I have seen this twice now. I am certain this and part one are two of the greatest Science Fiction movies ever to be projected on a silver screen. 

    I pray that there will be a 6 hour cut of both movies together.

    Technically speaking everything from the cinematography to the score is top notch stuff from experts in field such as Greg Fraser and Hans Zimmer. The vfx effects again are stunning, Villeneuve understands scale, scope and the…