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Favorite films

  • Jackie Brown
  • Chungking Express
  • Past Lives
  • Spirited Away

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    ★★★★★

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Magnolia

1999

★★★★★ Liked 2

I was not where I wanted to be today. That's probably true for a lot of people. The truth is I run away when I'm scared, and when I get into my head I can't be trusted to do anything but think and think darkly. That's probably true for a lot of folks, too.

Anyway. The clock struck and I was thinking about things happening at the place I couldn't be. Always elsewhere. I needed something to distract myself and…

Past Lives

2023

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

It’s hard to express how much I love this movie. Got the blu-ray tonight and watched through the “Bound by Fate” featurette and Celine Song talks about liminal spaces a lot. On this watched, I certainly noticed a lot of physical and emotional liminal spaces — the airports, the hotel lobby, the hotel room.

I sat and took notes on the featurette and the movie tonight. I’m excited to watch along with the director’s commentary later this week.

The deleted…

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

★★★★★ Liked Watched

A perfect film, and Wes Anderson's best.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Katy O’Brian now the hottest person to ever be in a Mission Impossible film.

On my rewatch of Dead Reckoning last night I started to bump against the AI stuff and all of the huge exposition dumps. There is a lot more of that in this film. So much that it felt like most of the story was just big exposition dumps between stunts.

I couldn't help but think of No Time To Die throughout this, it feels like there…

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Psycho

1960

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Is the most psychotic thing in this movie that Janet Leigh gets in the shower and then turns the water on?

Realized that I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the first 10-15 minutes. Loved this whole thing! I have a coincidental connection to this movie that I cannot fully disclose, but it comes up in conversation a lot.

I cannot believe the comedic writing! Norman, stunning conversationalist that he is, responds to things at such an odd rhythm. Perkins really put…

Mission: Impossible

1996

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

One of the most 'hell yeah' movies ever made.