Callan

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Favorite films

  • Ikiru
  • Hanagatami
  • Satantango
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

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  • The Matrix

    ★★★★½

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

  • Whiplash

    ★★★★½

  • The Queen's Gambit

    ★★★½

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  • Kikujiro

    Kikujiro

    The reason I came across this movie is different than most. I didn’t find this movie on Letterboxd, or tiktok, or the criterion channel. I don’t know the director, or the actors, nor am I really all that familiar with 2000s Japanese cinema.

    No, it started with a song. The main theme,
    Summer. A song that when I first heard it, it surprised me. It was upbeat, yet slightly melancholic. Nostalgic, but unfamiliar and unpredictable. I discovered this song when…

  • Satantango

    Satantango

    ★★★★★

    A REVIEW FOR MY #1 FAVORITE FEATURE FILM OF MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE, AND MAYBE FOREVER WITH A 99.94% PROBABILITY
    (only 99.94 because I have a sneaking suspicion that Edgar Cochran likes Satantango a smidge more than me)

    Don't read it as a review, but the briefest analysis of why this film is so important to me that I could manage before I began to ramble. With that being said...

    From the opening shot, rules are established. Not only are we…

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  • Babylon

    Babylon

    ★★★★½

    rewatching at a 10pm screening on a school night is the best decision I've ever made

  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★½

    try not to pee challenge

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  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    ★★★★

    Seen at early access IMAX premier

    This movie completely blew me out of the water (ha), exceeding my expectations for any marvel movie tenfold.

    For starters, the action was absolutely amazing. The CGI was used in my favourite way possible, as more of a vessel for theme rather than its own showpiece, something that in my opinion most marvel movies fuck up often (not to say there weren't epic displays of CGI artistry of course). The physics of the fighting…

  • Black Widow

    Black Widow

    ★½

    Entirely met my expectations