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Favorites are my most recent 5s.

Favorite films

  • The Brutalist
  • Sing Sing
  • Hi, Mom!
  • A Different Man

All
  • Shiva Baby

    ★★★★

  • God Told Me To

    ★★½

  • Rookie of the Year

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

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Shiva Baby

2020

★★★★ Watched

Close-quartered chaos cooking in a microwave. I love when it feels like you can’t or maybe just shouldn’t breathe. And let’s just say it: Rachel Sennott is a dang star. She carries it!

Had a couple good laugh out loud moments, some real levity that kept it as a true comedy in spite of how tense a feeling it spins up. Fred Melamed is always so funny. One of my guys.

God Told Me To

1976

★★½ Watched

What a wild one. I definitely thought this was some kind of a psychodrama police procedural but it's a whole lot more in the sci-fi, spooky ooky space. Maybe more than I bargained for?

It crams in an incredible amount of wriggling from where the movie starts—which I kind of really loved and wished there was more of that—so by the time it ends, it's like discovering wreckage a mile away from the crash.

If god ever tells you to do something... don't listen!

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Watched

Mayssion: Impossible 8/8

What a way to cap it. And in IMAX? The seats were rumbling and I was smiling.

There is a lot of very good stuff in this, but there’s one 20ish minute segment that I think is of the best from the whole series. Hitting the high note with gusto.

As my journey has come to an end, and all the fun is done, I am now publishing this secret document from the IMF: Mission: Impossible: Ranked

Spaceballs

1987

★★ 4

For the sake of this review, comedies fall into one of the four quadrants of a graph with the axises of SILLY and FUNNY. A movie can be: 1. SILLY AND FUNNY, 2. SILLY BUT NOT FUNNY, 3. NOT SILLY BUT FUNNY, or 4. NOT SILLY AND NOT FUNNY.

Unfortunately for Spaceballs it is firmly planted in the quadrant of SILLY BUT NOT FUNNY. Silliness can be funny (think something like Dumb And Dumber or Step Brothers) but Silliness in…