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Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Blade Runner 2049

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★

  • Hard Eight

    ★★★★

  • Divergent

    ★★½

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain

    ★★★★

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Erring on the higher side for this one. I had a great time, but genuinely am not sure what the point of it all was. Great Wes style as usual, and wonderful cast. Love to see Michael Cera the party.

There's some really great one liners in this, btw. I, myself, feel very safe that this will become a quoted film of Wes's.

Hard Eight

1996

★★★★ Liked 1

A great opening debut for PTA, one I've meant to watch for a long time but never could commit to.

Philip Baker Hall really brought a fatherly touch to the role, so much so it was a little difficult to imagine his history and motivation in this, but I loved him here all the same.

I go back and forth on Gwyneth Paltrow but was genuinely impressed with her in this. I think before her ego and fame got to…

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40 Days and 40 Nights

2002

★★★½ Liked 2

Pure garbage. But I liked it. Ugh.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked 1

A little over-stuffed and expositioned for my taste, but I had fun and it gave me some feelings.

I think Gabriel and The Entity continue to be the worst villains in the franchise, there's just no weight to them. I really wish the sendoff plot would have been about something else.

There's two things I really loved about this:
1) There's some really beautiful and Zen visuals with a gorgeous soundtrack slapped into the middle to give you a nervous…