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Favorite films

  • Eighth Grade
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Black Panther
  • The Blues Brothers

All
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★

  • Fountain of Youth

    ★½

  • Sinners

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016

★★★★ Watched

Rewatching this after 2 seasons of Andor really elevated this story. Everything made sense and it was great to see Andor characters appear. Gotta watch A New Hope next to see how the Andor backstory firms that film’s plot too.

Fountain of Youth

2025

★½ Watched

Ugh. This seemed written for a Ryan Reynolds Han Solo funny asshole type and I bet Jim Office wasn’t their first choice. He did not pull it off, he’s too nice deep down to play a swashbuckling Indiana Jones. 

Also all the stealing and law breaking and plundering make it hard to like or whatever the main characters are doing. 

It’s by guy richie so it looks good and feels fast and punchy but ultimately this movie was badly cast.

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Black Panther

2018

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I don’t follow comics so I go into Marvel movies cold, and it’s rare for their movies to feel fully fleshed out even if you’ve never read a comic about it. 

I’d say this is easily the most entertaining of them all. Great story from beginning to end, beautiful set design, and a stellar cast. I’ve previously enjoyed the Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America and some of the Ironman films, and Thor Ragnorok was the funniest but Black panther sured them all.

A Real Pain

2024

★★★★ 1

A great little film that mixes drama and comedy and honestly has the feel of a small theater’s stage production with long monologues and dialogues and a plot that leaves a lot of questions unresolved.

The visuals are good, as it’s also a road film about Poland. I love that they got all of this out of a tiny $3M budget. 

I have a feeling the script on paper was just a so-so story about two very different cousins that…