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Favorite films

  • The Handmaiden
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Black Swan

All
  • Pride & Prejudice

    ★★★★½

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

    ★★

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    ★★★½

  • Widows

    ★★★★

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Mission: Impossible

1996

★★★★ Watched

Ethan clearly didn’t get the memo that the top secret info would have been at hbomax.com

Warfare

2025

★★★ Watched

If I had a nickel for every time Alex Garland centered a movie around a topic core to the American political consciousness and then deliberately sidestepped any real engagement with the actual politics of it all, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice in a row.

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Twisters

2024

★★ Watched

The disaster movie elements rock. Each tornado set piece is exhilarating and from the first scene you feel that anything can happen.

Everything else though is unfortunately a disaster as well. The script is largely nonsensical and science talk is thrown around with zero conviction from the majority of the cast. Except you Glen Powell - I’m fully sat for the Glenaissance. 

Audibly laughed at loud at the Selling Sunset on the nose transition music (“can’t take the home out of Oklahoma”).

Civil War

2024

★½ Watched

Perhaps the biggest let down of the year so far.

A24 has run a killer marketing campaign that tantalizingly taps into 2024 fears about the imminent collapse of American society and seemed prime to stoke online discourse around our current political climate. The trailer raised questions on the unlikely Texas/California alliance but critics assured that Alex Garland is a smart writer and it would all make sense what we saw the finished product. 

In reality, this movie has nothing to…