thomasgaul

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Favorite films

  • Alien
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Thing
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

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  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★½

  • Smokin' Aces

    ★★★★

  • Copshop

    ★★★★

  • Norman's Rare Guitars Documentary

    ★★★½

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★

    Dorian Gray goes Brundlefly on its way to Society. And that isn’t meant to be reductive, because this film has quite a lot to say.

  • Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...

    Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...

    ★★

    Bait & switch. A marginally funny, self-indulgent church revival I didn't sign up for. A good bit of it felt like a put-on, overly dramatized for effect. Now, I've never almost died or been in a coma, but I'd like to think that if I did, I'd be thankful enough to not torture people with nonsense far worse than my usual standard nonsense.

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  • The Exorcism

    The Exorcism

    ★★½

    While not nearly as derivative as most exorcism films, it’s also not particularly compelling either.

  • Founders Day

    Founders Day

    ★★½

    I imagine the tagline to this should have been, "Welcome to our homage to the late 90's slasher movies that really wanted to be Scream but lacked the wit, style, and/or skill to come even close. Also, unlike those films, we didn't hire anyone you might actually know." The only recognizable player was William Russ, who I still remember from The Unholy all the way back in 1988.

    There wasn't much marketing or hype leading up to this one, which…

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