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Favorite films

  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Parasite
  • Children of Men
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

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  • Semi-Pro

    ★★★

  • The Batman

    ★★★★½

  • Moana 2

    ★★½

  • GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

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  • Arrival

    Arrival

    ★★★★★

    🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 97

    There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived

    The human experience. Is there any greater thing? The human experience comes with many inherent gifts, but perhaps none greater than our ability to communicate. With being a human we are all given the talents to convey our complex sets of thought and emotions, and the cognitive framework to understand them as we see them represented in the world. As humans we…

  • On the Silver Globe

    On the Silver Globe

    ★★★★★

    🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 97

    Best available version I could find online with English subtitles

    For it is not us that are lost in contemplation of the world. It is the world that is lost in our contemplation.

    Well I'm back from a slight hiatus to end 2023, and I decidedly chose to start 2024 with a monster of a film. This year I began my film journey with Andrzej Żuławski's seminal science fiction opus, On The Silver Globe. The film was…

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  • Semi-Pro

    Semi-Pro

    ★★★

    🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 60

    In the anals of history people are going to be talking about three things: the discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Flint, Michigan Mega Bowl.

    One thing that seems to never cease to make me laugh is Will Ferrell in a sports comedy movie. My brother and I grew up on Semi-Pro, Kicking & Screaming, Blades of Glory, and Talladega Nights. For context on how much we love these movies, Kicking & Screaming might honestly be…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★½

    🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 90

    Fear is a tool. When that light hits the sky, it's not just a call. It's a warning.

    I have to say I've remained extremely impressed by this film. Generally Batman films are really solid, especially looking back on the wildly popular Dark Knight trilogy from Christopher Nolan. Perhaps it's complicated to put my thoughts into words like this, but this is basically the second best film based around Batman that I've seen, but overall this is…

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  • Children of Men

    Children of Men

    ★★★★★

    🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 98

    A bleak and fearful exploration of humanity and the ideas of faith and hope. Arguably this has become vastly more important today than it was in 2006. Children of Men is a film that works on every single level with stunning clarity and impact.

    Children of Men is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama that takes place in a not at all distant future. In the year 2027 humanity has collapsed. Our ecosystem has been destroyed, civilizations are run…

  • Inside Out 2

    Inside Out 2

    ★★★★

    🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 85

    Maybe this is what happens when you grow up. You feel less Joy.

    Well this was a difficult watch, but in a good way really. I'm really glad Pixar decided Inside Out deserved a sequel and that they didn't really hold back much when making it.

    Inside Out 2 continues the story of our beloved Riley, now 13 years old and preparing for her first year of high school. Riley is still the fun loving goofball we…