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Favorite films

  • Heat
  • The Social Network
  • Interstellar
  • Before Sunset

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★★½

  • Fight or Flight

    ★★★

  • Hit Man

    ★★★★★

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

2005

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

This is where the fun begins

I've waxed poetic in my many reviews of this before and I have nothing new to really add except the fact that the Jedi actually do suck in this and certainly don't try to prevent Anakin's downfall the way they should. Everyone's power hungry, they are way too quick to suggest a coup, Windu just wants power to himself, and Yoda's pride is too big to accept the fact that he's grown weak. Pair…

Lonesome Dove

1989

★★★★★ Liked 4

Uva uvam vivendo varia fit

Found this while looking into Horizon, (which the parallels and comparisons are warranted). Then last week I read an article about how the novel was becoming popular again and thought I should check it out soon. Yesterday I was doing some research for a podcast segment (stay tuned) and I stumbled on this again, so I took it as a sign to watch this. Really glad I did because it quickly became one of my favourite…

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★½ 1

Our lives are the sum of our choices

McQuarrie clearly loves Cold War movies and I love that he does. Its seriousness does take away from some of the most exciting action to grace the screen since the last time a M:I movie was released which makes it more of a downer affair than a popcorn movie tends to be. Speaking of popcorn, I want one of those popcorn buckets now though.

Fight or Flight

2024

★★★ Watched

We're not done yet

There will never be another John Wick, but if this is the quality of the best of the knock offs then we're still in decent hands. I would watch at least two more of these essentially DTV Hartnett vehicles if this does well.

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Tennis Ball on His Day Off

2022

Liked Watched

I don’t absorb any of the information from these books but, but I do absorb the energy of everyone who looks at me

Relatable, and almost made me cry.

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

Liked Watched

Lotta truth in this one