Sam Bourner

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Favorite films

  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Tropical Malady
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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  • The Century of the Self

    ★★★★½

  • Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★½

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★★★★

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★½

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Memories of Murder

    Memories of Murder

    ★★★★★

    First time seeing Bong Joon Ho’s best work (and I’ll dropkick anyone who says otherwise) up on the big screen, thanks Connaught Cinema.

  • Opus

    Opus

    ★★

    That ‘I’ve watched this film before’ button was made for films like this.

    Derivative to the point of being an A24 parody. Hopefully fulfils some sort of an itch for a trilogy alongside The Menu and Blink Twice, and we can be done with this kind of thing. Opus hits such familiar beats and fulfils its own sets ups in such unsatisfying and tired ways. Pacing issues aside it’s fairly competently made, just so instantly forgettable and tired.

    Treat yourself to a rewatch of Con Air and Burn After Reading to get some of that Malkovich magic, though he’s clearly having fun here.

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  • Anima

    Anima

    ★★★★

    Who knew Thom Yorke would be the Buster Keaton 2019 was in need of 🙌

  • Clerks III

    Clerks III

    ½

    I honestly thought this couldn’t get any worse, then the director’s commentary starts over the end credits.