Sam Oliver-Watts

Sam Oliver-Watts

I am tame, sir. Pronouns he/him.

Favorite films

  • To Have and Have Not
  • Nosferatu
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Blue Collar

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  • Crazy Mama

  • The Protagonists

  • Fallen

  • La Cocina

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  • Fallen

    Fallen

    On a very short list of films where I spent the runtime feeling smug about having correctly guessed the twist ending in scene 1, my suspicions cemented with each evasion and misdirection that followed. (It's this and The Sixth Sense, basically.)

    A rewatch should be doubly redundant, then, even a full 27 years later. And it sort of was, but between the comfort of the familiar and the surprise of, well, familiar faces I'd completely forgotten were in this (Sutherland! Gandolfini! Turturro!), the two hours and four minutes sailed by.

  • Back in Action

    Back in Action

    TIL Americans think a full English includes mashed potatoes.

  • And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine

    And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine

    So, moving images are a thing. Half-hearted initial feints towards saying anything beyond this, or anything of substance about anything at all (the Lumieres! Melies! The Nazis! Uh, fake news and stuff?) quickly give way to the kind of aimless surf through contemporary socmed content you could easily recreate (and improve on, as per taste) at home. Born on YouTube, never should've left.

  • Blackbird

    Blackbird

    Flatley: denied.

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