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Would rather be watching a movie. A paragraph or three after every flick I watch. Will follow back anyone who follows me!

Chicago but also Detroit

Favorite films

  • Drive
  • The Graduate
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Stop Making Sense

All
  • Assassin's Creed

    ★★

  • Decision to Leave

    ★★★★

  • Babygirl

    ★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★★

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Assassin's Creed

2016

★★ Watched

Can’t tell if Callum Lynch’s dad killed his mom, they don’t mention it until we’re 2 minutes in and then only another 500 fuckin times after that.

I love when Michael Fassbender stars in a shitty movie and he goes all dead eye mode and looks like he’s calculating which exact decision throughout his 40+ years on this planet started the chain of events that resulted in him being on set that day. He doesn’t have a whole lot of…

Decision to Leave

2022

★★★★ Watched

Obsessive, emotionally repressed detective stories are the best, bonus points if everybody is tired. My first Park Chan-wook film, and one I’ve been waiting to get thrown on a streaming service ever since its release, didn’t disappoint and even managed to surprise even with immense expectations. The surprises aren’t just because of its twisty plot - this thing is cheeky as hell! Despite its meticulous craft that is liable to send you into a trance, Decision to Leave never takes…

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Dune: Part Two

2024

★★★★ 4

Lol, the sheer scale of these movies is downright anxiety-inducing to see in theaters. Everything is so fucking huge. It’s overwhelming. There are scenes with what seems like 100,000 people in the frame. This looks like it had a $1 trillion production budget, and not enough can be said about Villenueve’s gall and skill at making this laughably vast source material come to life. I’d love to watch three hours of Villenueve establishment shots that get increasingly sweeping until the…

Oppenheimer

2023

★★★★★ 8

First time seeing a film in 70MM, which had me kinda tripping out about the occasional ‘flickering’ effect for the first 5 minutes before I was hooked by this behemoth piece of history that made a notorious theater bathroom guy like me not get out of my seat for 180 minutes. 

Oppenheimer was always going to be fascinating to watch unfold because of the moral ambiguity its subject matter inherently brings. Scientific triumph for the sake of annihilation. Man’s primitive…

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