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Everything Is Going To Be Okay.

Favorite films

  • Magnolia
  • The Prestige
  • Tampopo
  • The Tree of Life

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Joyeux Noel

    ★★★½

  • Living

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

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Perfect Days

2023

Liked Watched

Japanese skibidi toilet propaganda and I love it.

Solaris

1972

★★★★★ Liked Watched

If the only way to see the vast, enigmatic and mysterious ocean of life is to fly far away from it, is it worth doing? 

Would you rather experience an unending vastness through a window far off, or intimately know the water that rests beside you where you are?

Solaris is my Tarkovsky :)

A wondrous adventure that seems to slow down and speed up without you ever feeling a tonal shift - it’s mesmerizing and downright harrowing at points and…

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Mickey 17

2025

★★★ 1

So much good things set up in Act 1 but constant tone switching and side plots left to dust made this second act climb and final payoff feel fruitless.

Living

2022

Liked Watched

Bill Nighy is a rare performer with a presence that really does feel present. Heartfelt story of what it means to live a life that leaves true impact - driven by a force one believes in outside of themselves.

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Licorice Pizza

2021

★★★★½ 1

Yeah you might not really know where it is you’re heading in this film but at least you’re running at full speed and, damn, the wind in your face just feels really nice.

But Bradley Cooper scares the hell out of me.

Being James Bond

2021

★★★½ 1

MGM’s subtle 40 minute commercial to promote their film had me getting choked up - what’s going on here? 

They once said this about Brosnan, and I’ll say it about Daniel Craig - someone is going to have some big shoes to fill.