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Favorite films

  • Star Wars
  • Se7en
  • Shutter Island
  • Dead Man

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  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    ★★★½

  • Red Rooms

    ★★★★

  • The Dark and the Wicked

    ★★★½

  • Angst

    ★★★★

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  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

    ★★★½

    Took a minute to get into it but I liked it. I’m down for seeing what the Cos does with the next three(?) and I hope it pays out like a slot machine.

  • Red Rooms

    Red Rooms

    ★★★★

    Watched on a Delta flight while looking nervously around to see who might be peeking at my screen. 

    Real Lisbeth Salander vibes to Kelly Ann. Dripping with dread. Lots of upsetting stuff if you’ve not traversed much of the true crime podcast genre. Even still it’s very unsettling at its’ core. A film full of great sequences that make you uncomfortable. One tense as hell scene where Kelly Ann jumps between two dark web disciplines that’s reminiscent of the Uncut Gems ending in a way. That’s not the spoiler it reads like. 

    Really good movie.

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  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★★½

    A monkey constantly litters and inexplicably sings a lot. 

    For the love of GOD go and see this in a cinema. Prove the dipshits dunking on its’ commercial performance wrong. 

    I’m blown away and I’ll save a sincere review for my second viewing.

  • Se7en

    Se7en

    ★★★★★

    Fair warning…this is an essay.

    This film means a lot to me so I thought I’d try and construct my history with it. I’m not completely certain of when I first saw Se7en but I do remember some details. 

    I think I was 10 or 11 years old, putting it sometime in 1998. At a friend’s house who’s parents allowed them to watch films rated above what my parents let me see. I would - as any budding film fan…