Andrew Roberts

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24 | he/him
Writer for That Shelf and The Ferryman
Ideas floating in the ether

Favorite films

  • sex, lies, and videotape
  • Cure
  • Lust, Caution
  • Dogville

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  • Backrooms

    ★★★★

  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

    ★★½

  • I Love Boosters

    ★★½

  • Eyes of the Spider

    ★★★

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Poltergeist
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Jacob's Ladder
★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

He looks peaceful, the guy. He put up a hell of a fight though.

To think that we live our lives all for that moment of release when we die. Where our loved ones throw their hands up in the air and talk about how we tried to make the best of the short time we had. Will they talk about the difficult moments? The fighting we had to go through to achieve what we wanted. Life oftentimes feels like…

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Backrooms
★★★★ Liked Watched

"Backrooms is refreshing in how it strips the formal layers and isolates the elements that garner positive responses. The camera lingers in its first-person perspective, using the diegetic VHS camera, offering the moviegoers’ gaze, salivating on the occasional line of blood as a corpse is dragged across the floor. Every emotional trigger the film throws the viewer’s way is not communicated as a legitimate formal object but as the regurgitated symbol created by the Backrooms, produced necessarily rather than intentionally."

Read my full review for The Ferryman here

P.S. I'm seeing this again Friday night. This film has the potential to be very special.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
★★½ Watched

I have basically disowned Star Wars for maybe four years now. The Bad Batch was an aimless conceit (apparently there are two more seasons?!), Book of Boba Fett didn't have enough material for its title character, and Obi-Wan was Disney's last plea to try and keep the older fans happy. So here we are with Mandalorian and Grogu. I didn't have a care in watching season 3 of the show, and thankfully you don't have to for this film.

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Babylon
★★★ Liked Watched

The ending of this film is the equivalent of "The Flash Entering the Speed Force" taking home the Oscar for "Most Cheer Worthy Moment".

The ending of this film is the equivalent of Ryan Reynolds pulling out a lightsaber in Free Guy.

There is no doubt that there are some skillfully crafted sequences in this film. A oner very early on that takes us through this sprawling party filled with sex, drugs, and music is quite enthralling and magical on…

Prey for the Devil
★½ Watched

World Premiere

....so you're a starving artist

When Jacqueline Byers looks exactly like Rory Kinnear in priest form from Men in the third act, I lost all capacity of taking this seriously.

The film could have been an interesting drama piece about the first female exorcist but instead, it becomes degraded to bottom-tier horror. The trailer had so much promise too.