Michael Fitzgerald

Michael Fitzgerald

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • Léon: The Professional
  • The Shawshank Redemption

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  • WHAM!

    ★★★½

  • Win or Lose

    ★★★½

  • Jim Henson Idea Man

    ★★★★½

  • The Intouchables

    ★★★★½

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  • WHAM!

    WHAM!

    ★★★½

    The music and success is front and center, but the real story is the incredible friendship between these two.  Sounds cliché, I know, but I understand now how and why they spilt when they did and with absolutely no drama.  Well-made doc.

  • Win or Lose

    Win or Lose

    ★★★½

    Steadily built to something interesting.  I enjoyed it, even if the ending felt a little unfinished.

    Everybody got humanized at the end except for the bleacher creatures, because £%¥< those kids.

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  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★

    I had intended to save a rewatch until after Andor is complete. However, circumstances put me in front of a TV showing it, so how could I do otherwise?

    It’s a gritty, more “realistic” take on Star Wars, which is a welcome addition to the canon, while also featuring one of the greatest displays of Force-wielding power (and terror) ever seen.

    It’s a violent, unforgiving WWII movie in space with one of the best, funniest droid sidekicks in the galaxy far, far away.

    It’s imperfect, and it’s magnificent.

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    ★★★★½

    When I introduced this movie to my son a couple years ago I told him it was the funniest film I’d ever seen.  That was certainly true when I first saw it as an eighteen-year-old college freshman with a taste for British humor and a whole new world opening up to me.  And you know what, I’ll be damned if it doesn’t still hold up all these years later.  Watched it again on New Year’s Eve and, even having seen…

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