Vaughn Shannon

Vaughn Shannon

Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Inception
  • I ♥ Huckabees

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  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • 12 Angry Men

    ★★★★★

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ½

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    Solid exploration of political intrigue and whether the church is about the past or about the next choice. Fiennes shines again

  • 12 Angry Men

    12 Angry Men

    ★★★★★

    Important and perfect

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  • Thelma

    Thelma

    ★★★★

    Delightful, and layered more than I expected. Go see. If you have a grandma, go see and then call her

  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City

    ★★★★½

    Amidst the blockbusters of summer '23, don't sleep on this Wes Anderson gem. I revel in his postmodern colors and quirks and emotional punches, even as the brain can't keep up. Didn't want it to end.

    At a broad level, it's about processing grief. Expressed in Different ways- inexplicable even to the one expressing- and at two levels of writer's life put to pen and actor's performance of those expressions of pain. Augie and the actor playing him (both Jason S), like we the viewer, can't explain all that transpires, and is unsettled, but we move on with some sense of loss and hope.

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