Adam Banks

Assistant Director in Film/TV world + programmer for Short of the Week

Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Apartment
  • Memories of Murder
  • Phantom Thread

All
  • Mad Max

    ★★★★

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    ★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

    ★★½

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Mad Max

1979

★★★★ Watched

Motorcycles are dangerous

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★ Watched

Honestly, I had really low expectations, and liked it a lot more than I expected. Solid mixture of slapstick humor and far flung hijinks and deep melancholic reflection. I laughed every time Michael Cera said something. Also Kate Winslet’s daughter is good??

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Trainspotting

1996

★★★★½ Rewatched

Watched this once, years and years and years ago. Forgot how good it was, or maybe it got better over time. One of the best addiction movies ever made.

Shrek

2001

★★★★ Rewatched

A kid’s movie has no business being this horny

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