Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Extra Ordinary 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Mar 2023

  This movie is just so pleasant!  It’s laugh out loud at times and at times I’m just smiling all the time because I love being with this group. It’s a happily low budget movie that works as such and benefits from it. They’re all so charming and then there’s Will Forte (he’s wonderful as well).

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  Knock at the Cabin 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2023

  It wasn’t bad. Shyamalan always gets great performances and this is no different. They should have kept the name of the book. I also feel like they should have stuck with the original ending though I understand why they went with this. It’s funny, in the context of the novel, though we spend roughly the same amount of time with the characters in the book and the movie, we have more time to feel the oppressive weight and time of…

Popular reviews

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  The Strays 2023

  ★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2023

  If nothing else, the absolute last scene was almost comically fucked up

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  John Wick: Chapter 4 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2023

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

  Loved this. This is how you end a saga in a grand, sprawling, somber, yet beautiful way. I know I’m not the first to say this but it’s really the modern musical with entire fight scenes set to music and in this case actual music and not just a score. It’s the next logical extension of Buster Keaton in a way as well where it’s over the top yet comedic at times as well. The cast was brilliant and a…