Ned

Ned

What time is it? 

No time to look back

Favorite films

  • True Stories
  • Fallen Angels
  • Joe Versus the Volcano
  • Day of the Dead

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  • Origin

    ★½

  • The Maze Runner

    ★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★

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  • Origin

    Origin

    ★½

    I’m all in for a Gozo style blend of documentary and dramatisation but in this I just found both elements came across undercooked, never really coming together in a satisfactory or engaging way.

    At its best it’s a fairly accessible if commercial history lesson and at its worst it’s a flattening of its own thesis as it messily pins together a broad sweep of examples of systemic dehumanisation. I was left a little jarred by the choices of how these…

  • The Maze Runner

    The Maze Runner

    ★★

    I wonder if they had a runner.

    A maze runner runner.

    Who when they saw the set they were amazed.

    An amazed maze runner runner in a maze.

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  • Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding

    ★★★★

    Manages to turn the usual business of revenge and exploitation on its head without sacrificing an ounce of the filth. Definitely going to look more into this steroids business.

  • Serendipity

    Serendipity

    Why are these awful people so excited to cheat on their spouses? I don’t approve of that. But don’t get me wrong, I’d give it all up to be John Cusack for a week between the years of 1999 - 2003. Probably the only years in recorded history that the world would have allowed John Cusack to be a movie star. That’s magic in its own way. That’s... serendipity.