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Favorite films

  • The Blues Brothers
  • All That Jazz
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • Do the Right Thing

All
  • Fool's Paradise

    ★½

  • Bad Education

  • Home Fries

    ★★★

  • Exit 8

    ★★★½

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Fool's Paradise

2023

★½ Watched

Charlie Day does his best Hal Ashby and Ken Jeong tries to carry this on his back, but so many elements just don't click together like they should.

I think if this movie was made 20-30 years ago, it would have been better, but it's a shame to see this one flounder around.

John Malkovich's monologue is funny though.

Home Fries

1998

★★★ Watched

Written by (NYU era) Vince Gilligan 

Weird unhinged movie, but the script, cast (including late era Shelly Duvall!) and a timeless Americana vibe made me charmed by this film

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The Beach Boys

2024

★½ 5

When I got home after watching this documentary on iMAX, I played my copy of MIU on vinyl, which in my opinion, is the most bland Beach Boys album, and yet I have a certain fondness for the making of this album, after seeing the bootlegged making of documentary, Our Team, which one can find on youtube relatively easily. As I write this review, Come Go With Me plays, which all those hardcore Beach Boys fans know, was originally recorded…

Eddington

2025

★★★★ Watched

If you want another entertaining movie that Ari Aster made that involves emotionally torturing Joaquin Phoenix and having him run around while in mortal danger then I got a recommendation for you

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