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Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Fight Club
  • Citizen Kane
  • High Fidelity

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  • Crash of Moons

    ★★

  • Green Cross Code

    ★★½

  • The Peeper

  • The Flying Man

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Crash of Moons

1954

★★ Watched

If you want to know my initial thoughts about Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, it would probably be good to reference my review for Manhunt in Space, but now that I’ve gotten to another adventure with Rocky Jones in Crash of the Moons, how does this ’50s TV serial hero hold up? Surprisingly decently upon a second visit.

Crash of the Moons is certainly a more straightforward adventure, and it’s missing a bit of the camp appeal because this story isn't…

Green Cross Code

1973

★★½ Watched

This British Public Information film has a fun camp quality to it. Also, Darth Vader as a public safety superhero is quite a gulf between roles for David Prowse.

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Deadpool & Wolverine

2024

★★½ Watched

Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the most uneven films I’ve seen in a very long time. I don’t think that will matter for most of its audience. Unfortunately for me, all the conflicting aspects of the film left me with an experience I’m also really conflicted about.

I am a comic book fan who used to pick up issues every Wednesday & I’ve also seen every film in the MCU. On the surface, I should be in the core demographic for…

The Flash

2023

★½ Watched

I had relatively high expectations for The Flash. He’s one of my all-time favorite characters in comics. What I got from the film was wildly distant from those expectations, unfortunately.

Honestly, I don’t want to wade into the cesspool of internet discourse about comic book movies based on DC properties. I have a distaste for the requirement the culture seems to put on us all to have extremely polarized views about these films. I sincerely hope everyone who went to…