Stephen Walter

Stephen Walter

Pretentious Film Scumbag

Favorite films

  • The Big Lebowski
  • Inherent Vice
  • Barton Fink
  • Julien Donkey-Boy

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  • The Menu

    ★★★★

  • Skinamarink

    ★★★½

  • Skinamarink

    ★★★½

  • Watcher

    ★★★★

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  • The Menu

    The Menu

    ★★★★

    A great deconstruction of the restaurant industry.

  • Skinamarink

    Skinamarink

    ★★★½

    This was a modern masterpiece. I enjoyed almost everything about it, from the creativity of the camera angles, to the sparing, but incredibly effect, use of dialogue. It dragged a bit in some parts. Pacing was a little all over the place, but all in all, one of the most originally executed horror film I’ve seen in years. The “look under the bed” had me peering through my fingers. My girlfriend made the comment that it reminded her of being…

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  • The Ruins

    The Ruins

    ★★★★

    Torqued up Jumanji and I’m all about it.
    The cringe was pretty intense in the beginning, but it took me by surprise with the second and third act. Ending was a little abrupt, but all in all, it was a blast and definitely kept me interested.

  • Watcher

    Watcher

    ★★★★

    This story was captured perfectly. Throughout the movie it seemed like a disconnected allegory for paranoia, then flipped it on its head in the last fifteen minutes so perfectly. I believed it to be something entirely different than it was, up until the final minutes. 
    Also have to shout out the cinematography, some of the most original stylization I’ve seen in a while.