Phil Friend

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Sportswriter who spends too much of his free time watching movies.

Favorite films

  • Wayne's World
  • The Blues Brothers
  • A Night at the Roxbury
  • Wayne's World 2

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  • Saturday Night

    ★★★½

  • The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer

    ★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

  • Miller's Girl

    ★★

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  • Saturday Night

    Saturday Night

    ★★★½

    Enjoyable. Don’t listen to the haters.

  • The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer

    The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer

    ★★★

    Random thought I had in the fourth episode: Has a cadaver dog ever actually found a body? Seems like the answer is always no.

    Is this leaving a few things out? Certainly the police couldn’t be this inept?

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★

    Gonna need to sit on this one. It it bad messy or great messy? Chazelle really went for it, exploring life, love, death, exploitation, what it means to make great art (like all his movies), selling out, coming to terms with mortality - those are just a few. 

    Positives: I thought the soundtrack was pretty decent (although I think some of the songs sound similar if not outright lifted from La La Land?). I also really liked Margot Robbie’s performance - think she might get a Best Actress nod.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★

    Man, this movie packs a powerful punch.

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