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Holy Guacamole (!)
Is that the heaviest film I've ever seen?
VERY possibly.
This was heavy AND funny.
Never seen anything like it.

I'd like to take a moment to thank movies for existing!
<3,
Nick

MUSIC DOCS ARE BACK !!!
I love music docs
This was very good.
Probably 4 stars, but I'm pretty sleepy. I ate 6 tacos today.

I met Herman Li, the guitarist from the metal band Dragon Force at this gig in a haunted mansion for a video game demo release party based on a f*cked up version Pinocchio (from what I understand) for a bunch of video game influencers (??) I played piano at this event. THAT WAS TODAY. One of the most metal days of my life.

This movie contains themes of ion, and toiling in obscurity. AND (from what I understand) this documentary was popular and put the band (Anvil) back on the map, which is a beautiful thing!

Thank you movies, thank you music.
I am enjoying being alive.
Just wish I had some chocolate.

ROCK N' ROLL
love,
- Nick

Leonardo da Vinci?
More like Leonardo da AWESOME!!
This guy was sooooooooo good!
How did he do all that stuff??
I love knowing about him :)

I am trying to wake up every day and think more like Leonard because that makes life an immersive spectacular convergence!!

<3 from here to the next renaissance,

-Nick

KEN BURNS.
The ending to this gave me CHILLS.
I think I cried at the end of Ken Burns Country Music.
Ken and Lynn are sneaky emotional gangsters!!!

I have read nary one Hemingway book, but now it seems like my destiny.
Fascinating life. Fascinating character. Complex human being.
Inspiring for artists like me.
What is my art? WRITING LETTERBOXD REVIEWS.

With great love in all things,
Nick

So THAT'S Elizabeth Taylor !

This movie was awesome sauce.
Probably a 4.5 star movie.
Hopefully next time.
Always learning...always growing...always eating popcorn.

Love,
Nick

Basically I stayed up later than normal to finish this. THAT'S how you know you are enjoying a comedy troupe documentary. Growing up as a young comedy fan- I felt like I kind of missed The Kids in the Hall. I laughing with my brother during a head crusher sketch. They played reruns on the show on Comedy Central. But I was more drawn to SNL reruns, Monty Python, The Simpsons, Steve Martin...

NOW I feel like I get it. Likening KITH to a punk band I have to say is... very cool to me!!

And I thought this doc was great. They had remarkable footage to work with. And to navigate all the tension- the fights- the ups and downs inevitable in a punk band or a comedy troupe- I found to be very compelling. It felt very honest. Concise. Electric!

Long live the intersection of music aesthetic and sketch comedy.

<3,
-Nick

Excellent!
Beautifully rendered.
I feel like I know Wayne after watching this.
Like first name basis kind of stuff.
What a beautiful soul.

Not all of his music is for me, but I feel like all of his spirit is for me.
Perhaps as I mature and get more grays in my stubble I will appreciate more adventurous jazz, but for now I really mess with "Night Dreamer" and "Ponta de Areia". RECENTLY I have become super into his 1985 album "Atlantis" which didn't even get mentioned in this documentary.
It sounds like hi fidelity N64 music. It's f*cking tight.

Anyhow. I feel like this one really did the artist justice and that is a beautiful thing. Thank you for capturing some of his beauty and sharing it with us.

<3,
Nick

Saw this at the Egyptian last night as a double feature (paired with "The Thin Blue Line") and director Errol Morris Q&A in between. Such a treat! Errol Morris said he did one movie where everyone was dumber than him (The Thin Blue Line) and then one where everyone was smarter (A Brief History of Time). That's fun!

I ended up kind of LOVING this movie. Stephen Hawking - fascinating life. Black Holes- okay I am starting to understand these now and that is also fascinating. But I Love the genre of this!! Science genre. Film grain. (This was 35mm) Philip Glass doing space music. Gorgeous visuals. Beautiful pictures of the universe and Leonardo flying machine type images. Kind of awe inspiring. And kind of funny. Let's that I like this type of thing.

<3,
Nick

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I got to see director Errol Morris do a Q&A at the Egyptian last night!
I can tell I MESS with this guy. I thought I might after seeing
"Vernon, Florida". He is very bright, funny, and sardonic.
To hear him talk about the process- forming relationships with people in the film was fascinating. AND the film is the reason the case was overturned and got someone off life in prison. Isn't that something??

Footage of an incredibly charming psychopath (in this case David Ray Harris) is always very compelling for me. Freaky, though it may be.

It was a treat to hear a MASTER speak at a beautiful theatre with comfortable green seats.
Documentaries win again!

<3,
Nick

With every music doc I watch I become stronger, faster, and even more smarter.  

This is an interesting era of an interesting band!!
Iconic drumming on valium scene in this was a cringers delight.  

I watched on Tubi and it froze a bunch of times which hampered my enjoyment at times.  

Rock on! 
<3,
nick

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Why do I watch this again?
Because like the interviewees in this film, I too am obsessed with the Great American Rock Band called "The Replacements". I listen to people talk about this band and think- oh my god. Maybe THIS is my community. This is the island of outsiders I've been searching for my whole life. "Nowhere, that's my home". And Replacements fans are my people.

I love the enthusiasm captured here. It's infectious. I like the hot takes. I like that the first time I watched this I was raising an eyebrow about how much everyone loved the first record. I couldn't get into it. But since then I have connected with Punk Rock, and now I'm IN. Now I'm in for the whole ride. From "Sorry, Ma" to Paul Westerberg's solo output.

I started re-watching this and thought- oh- maybe this documentary isn't very good. The lighting was "bad" and I ed there was no Replacements music or footage in the film. It's basically the story of the band told from a smattering of fans talking to camera. But what makes this documentary so special to me is that it's kind of really ABOUT the fans. It is very moving to me to hear fans talk about connecting to this music so deeply when they were growing up and finding identity and a much needed refuge there.

One fan posits that despite what people say- the Replacements WERE ambitious. Just not in the usual way we think of. But they were emotionally ambitious. What a beautiful idea!

This is not the best music documentary ever made (I still can't believe how good that BeeGees doc was) but I've never seen a doc like this one. It's scrappy, and it's got a lot of HEART. And I'll probably watch it again in a few years.

I hope you have a band or a music or a thing that makes you feel like the Replacements make me feel.

<3, Nick

Thank My God for COMEDY MOVIES.
For a theatre full of laughs.
There is a shortage of funny funny movies being made today.
But I am choosing to have an abundance mindset about this.

Last night I heard Writer/Director Andrew DeYoung say "The King of Comedy" was very influential in the making of "Friendship" and I thought OHHH yes that make sense. That movie is a cringe classic! Cut from the same cloth as it were.

A couple times the story in "Friendship" got a little unbelievable in service of a funny thing. It's called TRADE OFFS!! And I am choosing to have an abundance mindset about this. Thank you for very funny things

<3,
Nick

My hands are tied!
I have to give this movie 4.5 stars because it made me laugh so many times. I was blessed to watch this on the big screen with a packed house and director Penelope Spheeris in attendance dishing gossip and being not very politically correct before the movie.

I don't think of myself as a fan of this movie, but I guess I AM??
The performances are terrific. The writing is so funny. It's paced so well.
Driving around Chicago, bumping tunes, and talking directly to camera- it all captures this youthful exuberance that feels wholly original (even though Ferris Bueller also did this not 6 years prior??)

I think of Garth as a Halloween costume these days, but that guy was MAKING ME LAUGH. Wowee. So much charisma. Ed O'Neill was so good in this. Everyone was good!!

I must have seen bits and pieces of this on Comedy Central or something growing up as a kid. I didn't realize how influential it was. Sure a handful of gags don't hold up. But as a make-me-laugh vehicle 33 years after its release- this was a triumph!

Party on! (lmao)
<3,
Nick

Charlie Chaplin!!
Corn scene and Cocaine scene had me lol'ing big in 2025!!!
I now have a crush on Paulette Goddard who I guess ed away before I was even born at age 79. Isn't that interesting how that can happen??
Super Bad Ass that Charlie wrote the theme music!!! Which later became a hit for the great Nat King Cole as "Smile"

This movie deserves more stars of course but it was daylight savings last night and it made me kind of sleepy. MAGICAL to see this on big screen though tell you what.

<3,
Nick

absolutely remarkable documentary!!
I had the privilege of seeing this on big screen with a director Q&A after.
I think I prefer the original runtime because it's lean and mean. But as a fan... I loved seeing 40 new minutes and a new perspective narrating. Normalize having the tambourine player narrate your documentaries!!

<3
- Nick

Incredible doc!
Ondi Timoner does TWO incredible docs that I know about? Wow.
I think this is really 4.5 stars but I am kind of wigged out right now.
Feeling like I am being data collected and living in dystopian reality.
That Jamiroquai needle drop at the end f*cking HIT HARD THOUGH!!
<3
- Nick

I enjoyed viewing this documentary and learned a lot about Robert Williams!

I am glad that Robert is not a tortured artist, he is a happy artist :D

Documentaries are awesome!

<3
Nick

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THAT'S a 4 and a halfer right there.
Wowee. A Cringe Comedy early 1970's style.
I laughed so much. I put my head in my hands.
It's a thing of beauty.

Charles Grodin as Lenny reminds me of Steve Martin as Navin Johnson (The Jerk 1979). I say oh my GOD was Steve Martin influenced by this performance? Very maybe.

Also the ending gave me "The Graduate" (directed by Mike Nichols) ending vibes. Nichols and May MUCH??

^^ These observations are just for me as part of the forever quest of self discovery. I ask myself "why wasn't this a 5 star movie for me??" It's close. It's so GD funny. The 5 star comedy movies usually have to move me in the way that usually only music can. Maybe next time I watch it will do that for me.

I love you, movies!
- Nick Jester
March 3rd, 2025

Arthur Russell RULES
A lovely, meditative, sensitive, heartstring pulling doc.
There were a couple Arthur Russell songs I already loved ("Close My Eyes" being an all-timer) but this doc helped me bust down the door to his DEEP DEEP catalogue. Very much looking forward to discovering more of his music

Basically I saw this on Nitrate last night.
Now I am an official film buff for life.

So much tension and so much laughs!!
The one shots had me captivated. Like damb. Is everyone going to keep giving an outstanding performance without cutting??
How long can that last?? A long time turns out!
This was like a Broadway PLAY. And NOT the boring kind.

Nitrate made everything ghostly and luminous and magical.
Thank you for this experience, movies!!

<3
- Nick

This was good!!
It's okay not to be liked :D
and in fact... the need to be liked may be keeping us from the life we most desire.
I HATE CHRISTIAN LAETTNER!!
lolol jkjk idk how I feel about him.

This one was really good.
I love this kind of stuff
Let's hang those banners from the rafters!!!

30 for 30 is awesome
Professional basketball is tough to beat as sport subject
This was one of the best ones
I love this kind of stuff

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Vampires are real and I eat a clove of garlic every day to keep those BLOODSUCKERS out of my crawlspace.

I saw this movie with 6 people and I am thrilled to announce I liked it the BEST!! It was a thrill to play around in this gothic wonderland. I am only allowed to see one scary movie a year and this was it. And it was more visually stunning than scary so that is good news.

Because I stayed up very late last night having possibly the most inspired karaoke night of my life, today I indulged in a movie coffee. The nice gal at the concession stands told me to go to Starbucks instead of buying coffee from them because it wasn't "very good". Well I didn't have time to go to Starbucks. The broke and was a whole thing so they ended up comp'ing my disgusting coffee which was awesome.

I saw THREE people I knew from high school and made pleasantries with one of them (shout out to Chelsea). That was nice.

The movie ruled. This is the spoiler: I guess they showed vampire hog in this?? I must have been in the bathroom for that part because I don't that.

I have heart palpitations now because of the coffee- hope I can get some sleep tonight.

Talk to you later!
<3,
- Nick

Was this a movie?
Or was it a msuical?
Trick question- it was both :D

Great musical theatre has goosebump potential greater than any art form. DO you WANT having goosebumps? Well you have come to the right one :)

I loved it!
Very glad I attended this event.
Thank you for making this one everybody!!!
<3<3<3

- Nick

One of a kind very good movie.
Might even be a 4.5 movie.
But mood and setting influence ratings more than we even know.
I watched this movie on YouTube partly on my TV and partly on my iTelephone. In a theatre with popcorn? I bet would be 4.5 movie.
Thank you for reading my review of the movie!

Unfortunately I think this movie was very good!
Fascinating!! Searingly honest. Twisted and spooky scary.
Gallows humor galore.
Kind of seems like an important document.
I think maybe I love documentaries.
I'll probably think about this one forever.

<3,
- Nick

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I too grew up in Nebraska!
I too suffered from allergies!
This movie NAILED the sound of Cicadas in Nebraska in the 90's.
I related to this big time!!
And I think this was really well done.
Nebraska's on the map again BAYBEEEEEEEE

Marveling at how many 4 and a half stars movies there must be in the world that I haven't seen yet. Life was so much more exciting before we had cell phones and also when we lived in Mexico City in 1999.
The director of this film came and said what's up after the film that was tight. Long live American Cinematheque!!

<3,
- Nick

Gorgeous singular film!! 
I could watch Wallace Shawn make faces for two hours straight and I DID.  Wow does he make me laugh or what?  A portrait of artsy New York intellectuals in 1981 or secrets of the universe discussed over quail and espresso??
 Yep… I’ll have dessert with that.  Lmao 

Reviewing this film to remind myself how much I enjoyed the film 

<3 
Nick

Gorgeous singular film!!
I want to buy one book at a time and read it before buying another book!!  I want to dust off my cassette tapes and listen to my cassette tapes!!  I want to be a minimalist on the outside and a maximalist on the inside!!  
This review is to remind me that I like this movie 

<3
Nick

The greatest fast talking movie of our generation.

So many incredible lines in this. Amazing score.
It's all around such a BIG SWING that just delivers wow.

The last scene starts to play and you say no way is this the last scene already. It flew by so fast and before you know it, John Lennon is singing "Baby You're A Rich Man" to you.
The credits hit. You walk out of the theatre. You leave the movie but the movie doesn't leave you. That's when you realize you just watched...

A FIVE STARS MOVIE!!

<3,
-Nick

Let me be the first one to say that this movie is GREAT!
I watched it on the big screen with an enthusiastic crowd. So many applause breaks! It feels so modern it's astounding. I laughed a lot, but the smile time I logged while watching this?? Off the charts.

I hope to watch this many more times in the future, but for now here is a perfect Steve Martin bit honoring Gene Kelly in 1985

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVk1WDPF5QA

<3,
Nick

This movie is such a gift.
An All-Timer.
"BE A COMEDIAN"
<3<3<3
-Nick

"perhaps the most pictorially beautiful depiction of the Great Plains ever created on film"- June Perry Levine University of Nebraska-Lincoln

I am from the Great Plains, so to see them glow so beautifully in this motion picture did my heart good. Every frame? A PAINTING!! Stunning pastoral golden hues to ease your modern blues.

I'd like to see it again someday.

Closing thoughts:
Popcorn is probably the most famous snack at the movies- However, I drank a Lemon Ginger tea during the film. It went well!
I think I'll do it again sometime.

See you at the movies!!
<3

-Nick

I find that old movies can fall into the trap of being boring movies, and this was no different!

But also it was good! Movies are awesome.

"Inchworm" song alone was worth price of ission.
"Inchworm" song is INSPIRED and an all time great moment in cinema if you ask me (Nick)

I love the "Inchworm" song
<3,
-Nick

You HAVE to watch this on your birthday!!
I was pleasantly surprised by the humor.
I love laughing at humor and this movie made me laugh a lot of times.
It also made me feel.
Which I don't mind :)

They would have snatched a 4.5 from me if it looked like they were really playing their instruments. That's just how my movie rating system works
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Really good movie!!
<3,
Nick

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We will never hear the Instrumental to P.I.M.P. by 50 Cent the same AGAIN. Iconic use of that instrumental.

Also what if she did it?

<3,
Nick

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To see this on the silver screen made me say wow!
It's not always fun for me to watch because sometimes it depicts hell on earth. But I can't deny that it is "great" !!
Some of these scenes will stick with me forevermore.
It's so ROCK N' ROLL.

Also big ups to H.W. I think he's really gonna turn things around and help curtail Plainview Family generational trauma.

Daniel Day Lewis with an all timer performance.
BIG UPS!!!

<3,
Nick

Couldn't believe how good they made this movie. So much laughing.

If every movie was this good I wouldn't be here right now... I'd be in heaven :)

My team is looking into bumping this up to 5 stars.
Would love to watch it again!

<3,
-Nick

I went to Universal CityWalk for the first time and parked in the E.T. lot.
That place is crazy!!
I went to the movie and I tried a little bit of the new mean girls glen coco flavored cream soda. It was pretty good.
I wore my purple velour tracksuit which is really good to watch movies in.

Someone sat in my seat during the previews so then I sat somewhere else because everyone would have had to move for me if I would have asked. But then the person that was supposed to sit in my seat arrived so then I got up and told the person in my original seat that they were in my seat and then everyone moved and they said sorry and I said that's okay.

Thanks Godzilla!
Sorry that you have to be a metaphor for the United States Industrial Military Complex :/

"We Are The Champions" is an awesome song.
That modulation to the chorus is very unusual but everyone is on board!!!
You can't help it. It's undeniable.
Also the bass player wearing all teal was a cool move.
NOTING THAT FOR LATER

<3,
Nick

They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Actually this is the only time they ever did!!

I love this movie.
It brought me so much joy to see it on BIG SCREEN.
It made me laugh in a way that nothing else does.

I hope it remains a North Star for me in its boundless creativity, boldness in breaking convention, and also it's a musical that doesn't feel like a musical at all. An incredible feat.

Four Faves watch your back!!

This very good movie blurs the line between fantasy and reality in such a captivating kind of way. It makes me cringe in a way that I like and makes me laugh and ache a little in a way that I like.

Robert De Niro looking at the ceiling for a while and asking if it's cork is ALL TIME CLASSIC MOMENT in cinema history.

This movie is awesome I love it.

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This was the first Miyazaki film I saw on the BIG SCREEN.
I loved how big the screen was this time around.

Once Mahito goes into the tower, the movie goes awesome mode and I liked that.

My reclining chair was too comfortable and made me drowsy sometimes, I didn't like that.

I noticed that Mac DeMarco came to this showing of the film which I liked.

Movies are tight!

This movie was fun
SWEET TOOTH SONG FOR LIFE!!!!

<3,
Nick

4 stars for the Holdovers!
That feels right.
Because it was good!
:)

Love,
- Nick

For me?
I think that was the best movie of 2023 can you believe that?
Poor Things was a wild ride.
May December was like woah.
Maestro had my favorite scene with the Mahler scene.
But also THIS had my favorite scene also with that scene at the end where they say goodbye do you know the one I am talking about??
Great job with making this movie!
Felt that one

<3,
-Nick

This has to be one of the best movies out there don't you think??
It is a awesome movie
:)

<3,
-Nick

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I am on a mission to watch movies directed by Nicolas Roeg for reasons I can not discuss right now. My first foray into this avenue just happened in the incredible way of seeing this movie at the theatre.

No offense but I think this movie could be a shorter movie. That's okay! Some amazing things happened in the movie though that left my jaw dropped and feeling agog.

Also what ended up happening was David Bowie's penis was in the movie so I saw that and wasn't expecting that! I asked my friend if they used a penis double, but they replied no and said that the movie is famous for having David Bowie penis.

Thank you for reading my review!
:)