Favorite films

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  Days of Heaven 1978

  Watched 05 Apr 2024

  As we near a new total eclipse of the sun, I am reminded of the last, seven years ago, when I pulled my son out of school for the day and drove a few hours with him and my father to get right in the path of totality. We avoided parks and rest stops clogged with other gawkers and simply found an empty gravel road between a soybean field and a cornfield (not exactly a rare sight in the middle…

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  Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008

  Rewatched 18 Apr 2021 3

  I didn't watch this movie again today, but I'm logging it just because I wanted to write this down.

  I didn't know anything about this movie when I walked in to it. I hadn't seen a preview for it and didn't know anyone who was in it. I just had a couple of hours to kill between school and work during the summer after it released. I would regularly buy a ticket to a movie at the dollar theater for…

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Saw this at the Marcus in downtown Lincoln yesterday with a giant glass of Stella and a complimentary small popcorn since it was a Tuesday. And then I went to a baseball game afterward. What a life!

  Don't think this will be confused with any of Bong's best; it's a silly thing, a bit too long, trying to do a bit too much. Never fully wrestles with its interesting philosophical ideas or fully delivers on the action. I was the…

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Saw this today with my wife for brunch at the Alamo and it absolutely fucking cooks. I coaxed her into it by saying I thought it would have Ocean's 11 vibes and it was honestly all the relevant parts of that film for winning her over. The cast is stellar, the writing is crisp and spare, and it looks beautiful. A smart, tight little film for actual adults, sexy and sophisticated, surprisingly funny throughout. Plenty of other folks in our…

Popular reviews

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  The Red Shoes 1948

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Looks so stupidly good. It's ridiculous. Obscene. Unfathomable. Less than five minutes in I made an inarticulate, uncontrolled grunt at how dumbly beautiful this thing is. And I'm just watching a stream on Max. A print must be like popping your eyeballs in the deep fryer. I could watch it again tomorrow. Fuck sunsets.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  The Brutalist losing Best Picture to Emilia Perez would make Green Book beating Roma look like No Country for Old Men besting There Will Be Blood.

  Saw this at the (newly corporately owned) Alamo last night where the intermission was very much appreciated after a couple of beers.

  Brody is great here, and deserving of his accolades, but Guy Pearce is the performance I'm still thinking about afterward.

  Hard not to compare this to Oppenheimer and the aforementioned There Will…