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Favorite films

  • Dazed and Confused
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Wet Hot American Summer
  • Possession

All
  • Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

    ★★½

  • Magnolia

    ★★★★

  • Becoming Led Zeppelin

    ★★★

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★

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Paint Drying

2016

Watched

Well, I’m closing in on the 8 year mark of being a member on this site, so I guess it’s about time to make my obligatory contribution to Paint Drying.

As many of you may have noticed, I’ve been fairly inactive here over the last 6+ months. Between VIFF and New Years, I built up a backlog of 20+ films I’d watched and hadn’t logged. Then, over the course of a week and a bit, I made up that backlog…

Anora

2024

★★★★★ Watched

VIFF 2024 #15
The Playhouse
9:15pm

Sean Baker, you beautiful bastard.

It's not often I come across a film I have such high hopes for — especially a film coming off winning the Palme — and having it so thoroughly meet expectations. Parasite is probably the only other one I can think of in recent memory that lived up to that kind of massive hype.

This film is everything I wanted it to be and more. I was enjoying the…

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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

★★½ 1

This movie was released in 2008 when Aaron Taylor-Johnson was 18.

This was the same year he met his now-wife Sam Taylor-Johnson, who was 41 at the time.

She already had two children. The oldest of which is 6 years younger than Aaron.

Magnolia

1999

★★★★ Watched

All those frog memes finally makes sense…

Probably the second-best Tom Cruise performance after Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. Apparently he wrote the opening monologue himself too!

I wonder if Andrew Tate has ever seen this movie...

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The Outwaters

2022

½ 2

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

All Quiet on the Western Front

2022

★★★★½ 13

I haven't read the novel, but I assume this is what a perfect adaptation looks like.

All Quiet on the Western Front is ’s stylistic antithesis to 1917. 1917 was a beautiful film, and while All Quiet on the Western Front is certainly a well shot film, it is anything but beautiful. This is a haunting, devastating film.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a very raw film. They don't hold your hand, and they don't pull any punches.…