Ryan Berman

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Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Star Wars
  • Gladiator
  • Die Hard

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  • Carrie

    ★★★★

  • Chinatown

    ★★★★

  • Backrooms

    ★★★½

  • Scarface

    ★★★★½

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Carrie
★★★★ Watched

Carrie will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Backrooms
★★★½ Watched

Walking out the theater felt like waking up from a nightmare that felt vaguely familiar but you can’t even remember what it was about. 

So much to admire here even if it didn’t stick the landing for me. Loved that the production design was basically the main character in the movie. Every space was so uniquely different, off putting, and overall entrancing. I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen when the movie was in “the backrooms”. It’s just so good at making you feel lost, confused, and anxious as the characters experience the spaces. Kane Parsons has a huge future ahead of him.

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Obsession
★★★★ Watched

Who’s the horror final boss? Aunt Gladys breaking sticks or Freaky Nikki breaking sticks?!?

Scarface
★★★★½ Watched

I was watching this and thought to myself, “I bet if I turned the sound off this movie would still be just as entertaining.” And I don’t mean that as a knock on the sound or dialogue at all, it’s fantastic. It’s just that Brian De Palma is such an incredible visual director (maybe the best). The meticulously staged blocking, the composition of each shot, the choice of colors in his sets, the way the camera moves throughout spaces, the…