qman2001

qman2001

Favorite films

  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Frances Ha
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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  • The Boondock Saints

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★½

  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    ★★★★

  • Eraserhead

    ★★★★

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  • The Boondock Saints

    The Boondock Saints

    ★★★★

    Shocked to find this may be a movie that has ideas. Not shocked that they are EXTREMELY CATHOLIC ideas.

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★★½

    How are people not enjoying this movie, this is goddamn incredible. Osgood can’t be stopped. In Longlegs, he applied the technical panache of trendy arthouse horror to a jarringly upfront cult procedural that was not-at-all-coyly about The Devil and how we respond to the very real pervasive existence of evil. Here, he loosens up a little on the tensile restraints for a much vaguer, messier, and funnier story about the completely fucking different fear of mortality. Death is not an evil,…

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  • Speed Racer

    Speed Racer

    ★★★★½

    Still stands as firmly against the mainstream grain as it must have when it released, at a time when “nerd culture” (barf) felt no need to legitimize itself. This is the direct opposite of the other massive live-action adaptation of 2008, Iron Man, and it’s all the better for it. Where Favreau took a pulp creation and offset all of its most comic-booky aspects with some sense of reality, the Wachowskis opt instead to fully own the silliness of their…

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★

    I saw this months ago and I’m still mad about it. Shitty, selfish, soulless, and toothless, we went to this movie, whether we knew it or not, to see Ryan Reynolds: The Man. Meta humor is fine, meta humor is even good and funny, especially in the context of Deadpool. But the bevy of cameos, the resurrection of a dead character so he can go through the same exact arc he did before he died, just because all the textbooks…

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