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Favorite films

  • PlayTime
  • La Notte
  • House
  • Duck Soup

All
  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

  • Trouble Every Day

    ★★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★★

  • Liquid Sky

    ★★★½

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Captain America: Brave New World

2025

★★★ Watched

The first sign of an inexperienced filmmaker is carpeting the entire film in a constant score. I think with 90% less music this film might actually be decent. 

Music is to highlight, applied with a fine brush, not with a roller.

Let the scenes breathe.

Oh, Takehiro Hira plays the same character (ish) in Rumours. Coincidentally I watched that last night. This tickles me.

Trouble Every Day

2001

★★★½ Watched

It’s well done, but also… I’m not feeling great right now. It’s not the blood part of the assault that bugs be. Anyway… TMI?

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Expend4bles

2023

★★½ 3

Which one was this? It’s ok, things blow up, and old dudes known for grunting while shooting guns do it again here, with more hip stiffness and arthritis.

Ms. Marvel

2022

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Wonderful. Effervescent. Real. My favorite Marvel series.


Anyone balking at the middle part of the series is doing some privileged incurious low key racism. It’s set in during partition, a massive tragedy that doesn’t get much play in white popular media, as far as I know, Doctor Who is the only other big reach franchise to dedicate time to it and white folk groaned about boring brown people problems all over the interwebs. Same here. 


I found it deeply moving,…