Mike Mashon

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(Formerly a) film and video-adjacent mid-level bureaucrat at a large federal organization

Favorite films

  • The Last Picture Show
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Notorious
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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  • Midnight

    ★★★★

  • The Mind Benders

    ★★★

  • A Man's Neck

    ★★★½

  • The Piano Lesson

    ★★★

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  • Midnight

    Midnight

    ★★★★

    Took me long enough to watch this utterly delightful romp.

  • The Mind Benders

    The Mind Benders

    ★★★

    Typically great Dirk Bogarde, but loses steam two thirds of the way in and limps to the finish.

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★

    When I was a senior in high school I wrote an English paper of which I was pretty proud. Some good turns of phrase, tonal shifts, a twisty and bleak ending, real edgy stuff from my fevered imagination. My teacher gave my masterpiece a one word critique: hollow.

  • Chinatown

    Chinatown

    ★★★★★

    Some legendary films have small flaws but this isn't one of them. Every time I watch it, John Huston gets scarier.