Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Jun 2023

  The second entry that has the possibility of being the greatest animated trilogy ever. The pressure is on to not screw up the landing.

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  Anthem 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Jun 2023

  The documentary is an epic song, with a conceptual foundation, a journey to gather inspiration and verses that repeat significant refrains. However, the final product feels too “PBSy”, too smoothed down to really be inspirational. I certainly took down some notes both on what the US is, and on what it can become.

Popular reviews

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  The Overnighters 2014

  ★★★★½ Added 4

  -The Overnighters is the closest movie to my work that I've found. Calvary feels more emotionally resonant and Wendy and Lucy best expresses the lives of the people I serve, but I can't deny the connection between myself and Pastor Jay Reinke. Temperamentally, we couldn't be more different. He's a people-pleaser and I get a rush from conflict. He is concerned with what people think, and I'm more concerned with how people act. As a pastor, I chose to begin…

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  Advantageous 2015

  ★★★½ Added

  A smart film of insight that I wish had better technical skill.

  A future in which technology has expanded, but social morality has shrunk. A new ability to transfer minds into fresh, new bodies has emerged... and it becomes necessary because women have become even more sexualized, with children openly being prostitutes and older women unable to retain their work because they lack the conventional beauty they once had.

  I love the way the film explores the personal aspects of…