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2012

★★★★ Liked Rewatched 08 Jun 2025

13 years ago I projected the opening-night showing of this film on 35mm at ArcLight Hollywood. Before the screening I chatted with Rian Johnson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lobby about how much I loved “Brick.”

I’m not sure that “Looper” makes 100% airtight sense as a time-travel narrative, but there’s enough awesome here that it doesn’t really matter. Garret Dillahunt’s death scene is one of the sweetest moments in 21st Century cinema. And when I first saw the sequence…

2013

★★★★ Liked Watched 06 Jun 2025

People are complicated. People are people.

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2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched 23 May 2025

Yeah I cried more than a few times. A pretty thorough and touching tribute to / dissection of one of the most influential pop-culture personalities of my lifetime. Learned a bunch too— for instance I did not know it was Shelley Duvall who recommended Tim Burton to Paul Reubens as a director. A whole lot of joy here, and a fair bit of frustration as well at watching the Hollywood / tabloid machine chew someone incredibly talented up and spit…

2025

★★½ 2

Has its moments (most of which involve the buffoonery of Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen’s bumbling alien characters), but by and large this wasn’t my thing. I liking the animated version quite a bit more.

Full review coming to LaughingPlace.com.

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