mysterious skin
rewatch
still 10/10

really enjoyed this. Tense and eerie at times. I really don't know s*** about Islam so I'm sure the religious allegories mostly went over my head, which is fine since it just encourages me to read more. Solid crime-thriller.

girl wanted me to watch it, said she loved it, childhood movie.

5/10

not as offensively bad as i thought it would be, but one big poo and pee joke

watched the mario movie too. was 6/10. scenes that “recreated” the games were fiyah

Now yearly tradition of Batman Returns at Alamo. One of my favorites

Candy

Left me with so many mixed feelings. The acting by Abbie Cornish and Heath ledger is great, the atmosphere and the theme is so heavy, but the plot feels like it's going nowhere, like a montage of unrelated scenes to send a message and you can feel that the director was hoping to make an impact, but it just doesn't hit the way it should have. Anyway, some people really liked it, I'm not one of them.

Watching Bad Grandpa

3/5

2/5

2.5/5

classic

5/5

Watched this so many times as a kid. One of my dad's favorite movies, and it holds up very well. I'm still astonished that they kept up the intensity from start to finish. All killer, no filler. Tommy Lee Jones was incredible as the foil to Dr Kimble. Outside "Raiders of the lost ark," this might the quintessential Harrison Ford movie.

"I didn't kill my wife."
"I don't care."

Chills.

Leave the world behind
7/10
Interesting story, captivating, Ethan Hawke :heart-eyes:

Colette

I need to watch more movies like this that transition from the era of period drama to the early pre-roaring 20s as the world became more and more progressive. It isn't perfect, at least not to me. It tries to create tension but it doesn't really translate. I feel like most biopics have this problem. I love the real life story behind it all nonetheless and I feel so drawn to this era because I see the parallels to ours. Society was changing so fast, but also getting strong pushback. I just hope we won't regress as much when we reach the 30s and 40s.

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland's premise is that Disneyland as a secret entrance into the an alternate future. It's one big Disneyland ad meets Men in Black meets sci-fi Hogwarts? On the surface it's cute, just like any other Disney live action, it's visually beautiful but story-wise eh... I feel like either you will love it or be very bored by it. I like it, I really like it because a lot of the Easter egg locations are Disneyland attractions (Tomorrowland's city silhouette is just Cinderella's castle and it's heavily implied that Walt Disney was the founder of the city and the movie just keeps giving from there), and the entire plot is in essence an allegory about children who still believe in the magic of Disneyland science of Tomorrowland, adults who are no longer believers and teenagers on the fence. Kind of in the same way Men in Black is confirming all the alien/UFOs conspiracies and Matrix is confirming Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation you get my point. I wish Disney had done more original work like this while Syd Mead was still with us. R.I.P.

Anyway, dreamy idea, beautiful visuals, flat story, perfect Christmas movie.

Mid

10/10 chase sequence

Young Dafoe was a bad b****

Cherry

10/10 - Always be kind to strangers, you never know what they are going through.

money monster - 6.5/10. plus .5 for the vine reference.

somewhere in the spider-verse george clooney's filmography was sprinkled alongside the other george's of the late 60's - late 80's, adding to his criterion collection.

think:
leatherheads in 1973
the good german in 1968

The lie
9/10

3.5/5

In the name of the father
7/10