Paul Dower

Paul Dower

I make a little blurb about the movies I see if I remember.

Favorite films

  • Faces
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Oldboy
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    I liked this movie! It was very fun, the performances were great, especially Robert Pattinson. The plotting felt a little messy. Just felt like two different stories that were smushed together without a lot connecting them, and we didn’t really get the full potential out of either.

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    I really liked this movie. The ending is fairly poignant, but I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. Is it a nuanced ending or a blanket statement? If it is nuanced, is the cultural climate we live in ready for that kind of nuance about sex work? And if it isn’t, is that the movie’s fault?

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  • Doctor Who: The Star Beast

    Doctor Who: The Star Beast

    ★★★½

    Banger. Doctor Who is back baby! This special feels right at home with RTD’s previous era, which is fun for this episode, but I hope it doesn’t continue. I don’t want this next era to just but more RTD. I want RTD but with the expertise of the shows he’s written in between era. RTD evolved. But I’m ready to have my socks rocked with the next two specials. Happy 60th Doctor Who!

  • Logan

    Logan

    ★★★★½

    “Children of the atom, students of Charles Xavier, MUTANTS—feared and hated by the world they have sworn to protect. These are the strangest heroes of all! THE UNCANNY X-MEN!”

    These words introduce The Uncanny X-Men comics, and I don’t think they are better adapted than in this movie. I think the perfect X-Men movie shows mutants that are just trying to live their life, or barring that, simply survive. That’s what the mutants in this film want. All they want…