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Favorite films

  • Twin Peaks
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • The Green Mile
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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  • Flight of the Navigator

    ★★★½

  • Black Mirror: Eulogy

    ★★★★

  • Georgie

    ★★

  • Black Mirror: Plaything

    ★★★½

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Flight of the Navigator

1986

★★★½ Liked Watched

The year is 1978 and a twelve year old boy named David, while searching for his younger brother, falls into a ravine in the woods. When he wakes up he discovers that things have changed. He quickly realizes that the year is now 1986. It’s been eight years, but he is still physically twelve years old. Within minutes of his return to current time, a U.F.O. is discovered close by. The mystique is thick, but soon the two are discovered…

Black Mirror: Eulogy

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Black Mirror – Season 7 - Episode 5

Phillip is going about an ordinary day in his kitchen when he gets a phone call that instantly changes the air around him. Someone from his past, someone he hasn't seen in years, has died. The family is reaching out to those who knew her in her younger days, asking if he’ll attend the funeral. When Phillip declines, they instead offer him a chance to contribute to a new technology. A visual…

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The Witch

2015

★★★★ Liked 11

Settlers in colonial New England, William, his wife, and their five kids are Puritans who are banished from their community some time in the 1600s. They take refuge at the outskirts of town on a small farm. Misfortune follows them as their crops rot and their youngest son, a newborn baby, is abducted. Some say there's a witch in the woods beyond the farm and the family have found themselves targets of her wrath.

The Witch serves as the feature…

*batteries not included

1987

★★★★★ Liked 12

"This is the 80's, Mason. Nobody likes reality anymore!"

I'm 33 years old. I grew up in a time where network TV still had movies on at night time and all day Sunday. Sundays in the fall tended to be reserved for feel-good family movies. Films like The Goonies and Homeward Bound. Classics in their own right but my nostalgic Sunday movie was always *Batteries Not Included. It had a real tie to my hometown and the problems that plagued…