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Favorite films

  • Fish Tank
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Son of the White Mare
  • Ikiru

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  • Farewell My Concubine

    ★★★★★

  • Schindler's List

  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't

  • Turner & Hooch

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  • Ikiru

    Ikiru

    ★★★★★

    I thought the dealing with cancer would be the hardest part about watching this movie, turns out it was the working for the government and trying to change things part that made me feel absolutely terrible. Hard to feel hope right now.

  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

    So much fun, and I also totally understand if you hate it.

    Here’s my thoughts:

    Very cool, attractive and hip young people on capitalist nightmare planet is not as much fun as lumpy, crusty and weird people on capitalist nightmare planet. 

    Too much action, too much set piece. Competent action and set pieces but too much.

    Would have loved to see a much slower paced first half to better develop the characters and a slower paced second half to focus…

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  • The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch

    ½

    I watched this on an airplane and wrote all this down right afterwards:

    The French dispatch had me feel very little, at a certain point it was hard to pay attention to any sort of story or characters, the movie washes over you, never asking anything of you, never suggesting any sort of internal life. It would work better as some kind of moving art book rather than a movie about people. Wes’ modern work seems to be creating fairytales,…

  • Sorcerer

    Sorcerer

    ★★★★★

    Sunk cost fallacy? More like truck cross cavity! Please subrscribe to my letterbox today for more wacky zingers that are sure to put a smile on your face. I ❤️ (love) movies - scramp !!!!!