Sean Brennan

Sean Brennan

Favorite films

  • The Apartment
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Céline and Julie Go Boating
  • The Long Day Closes

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  • Enter the Dragon

    ★★★½

  • Heartworn Highways

    ★★★★★

  • Hellraiser

    ★★★★★

  • The Blackout

    ★★

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  • Enter the Dragon

    Enter the Dragon

    ★★★½

    5 stars when it's Bruce Lee beating the living shit out of guys, but that's maybe only half the flick. I feel like some parts fall flat but it's hard to criticize such an iconic movie. Lee is great but the other leads are hit/miss, especially the Big Bad. Mirror fight took my breathe away, but kinda had me wishing the plot moved with the same Grace.

  • Heartworn Highways

    Heartworn Highways

    ★★★★★

    A truly incredible and moving piece of work all around, and this is from someone who's not the biggest Townes fan in the world (that he ends up one of many marginal figures in this paean to the life of the working musician does him much more credit than do those who'd make him out to be the Second Coming).

    Probably the greatest illustrations of the recording process I've ever seen depicted on film next to maybe Sympathy For the…

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  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    what a waste of a good idea

  • Hellraiser

    Hellraiser

    ★★★★★

    At last, the work of a Trve freak. This to me is what people say Exorcist III is, so full of Vision that any quibbles I had throughout (A few jagged or obvious cuts here and there, which you'd expect from a first-timer) melt away by the end, pleasure and pain indivisible. The sweetest union of Lynch and Fulci. Uh-huh, honey