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Favorite films

  • 12 Angry Men
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • The Big Lebowski

    ★★★★★

  • Obsession

    ★★★★½

  • Backrooms

    ★★★★

  • The Backrooms (Found Footage)

    ★★★

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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
★★★★½ Watched

Music biopic is an infamously uninteresting genre of film, so much so that there are films made with the soul purpose of mocking the genre for being repetitive and safe. In recent years we’ve gotten a few music biopics that are interesting and experimental but in one way or another they can all be traced back to Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. 

This is such a cool movie. The specific and intentional way it feels disjointed in order…

Ernest & Celestine
★★★★ Liked Watched

March Around the World 2024 (Trip 1) - Luxembourg 

Ernest and Celestine is an animated film about the unlikely and societally frowned upon friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a mouse, Celestine. The main draw here is the said friendship between the film’s titular characters. It’s very heart warming to watch them go from strangers who happen to help each other to best friends who are willing to die for each other. It’s almost unbelievable that they would become such…

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Obsession
★★★★½ Watched

There's a lot of great things about this movie but what pulls it all together is Inde Navarrette's unbelievable all-timer performance.

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Phony
★★½ Watched

“Hey look Tomar, it’s you.”

Secret Level - Dungeons & Dragons: The Queen's Cradle
★★★ Watched

This is so frustrating because the second it started getting interesting and it started pulling me in it ends. The pacing made it inherently difficult to get invested in anything that’s happening until the exact point that it ends. Dungeons & Dragons doesn’t really lend itself to short form storytelling, even one shots are usually at least an hour long. It needed to be maybe ten minutes longer and it needed better pacing. I can give a big compliment to the…