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Favorite films

  • Hackers
  • The Matrix
  • Weapons
  • The Thing

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  • Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

    ★★

  • Blow the Man Down

    ★★★

  • Upgrade

    ★★★½

  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

    ★★★★½

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Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

2020
★★ Watched

Psych usually strikes a balance between Shawn and Gus goofing around and actually solving the mystery-of-the-day in a clever way. This was almost exclusively the former. It's enjoyable to see the cast back together, but everything else was a bit lacking. There wasn't much suspense, or mystery, and the only actual psych-y bits Shawn did was... looking at some things.

Blow the Man Down

Blow the Man Down

2019
★★★ Watched

Interesting. There's a lot going on, and I love how the different characters are working at cross-purposes and slowly revealing more and more about what's happening. Big fan of the sea shanties too.

Also refreshing to see a film where almost all the important characters are women. I think I needed a little bit more to keep me engaged, though. A bit of action, or a few extra plot beats, or something.

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Sinners

Sinners

2025
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Oh, damn. I didn't know anything about this going in, and I think that was the right move.

Great script, great acting, great music, great set pieces. There's a bit of a Bong Joon Ho vibe to it. The only downside is it's really hard to convey why it's so good.

Mickey 17

Mickey 17

2025
★★½ Watched

Hmm. Didn't meet my expectations, but it was mostly OK, I guess?

I feel like Bong Joon Ho's films normally leave you room to think for yourself about the contents, but Mickey 17 doesn't really. Everything's mostly cut and dry, or explained via exposition.

Dragged in the middle, and had a bunch of little side stories that didn't really seem to add that much. And the US political stuff just felt clumsy and out of place... I'm here for sci-fi not SNL skits.

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