• The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight

    ★★★★★

    That first third still needs about 10 extra minutes to breathe, but man, from the interrogation scene to Alfred consoling Batman is one of the greatest stretches of any of these things. For whatever reason, Joker switching Rachel & Harvey's locations really impacted me more on this watch than it ever had before. Such a perfect, cruel twisting of the knife. 

    But as I get older and see this country lose its mind more and more every day, Nolan’s perspective on…

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    Two tears, 15 seconds apart and one from each eye ran down my face in the final meeting between Coop and Murphy.

    Let the record show I’ve been on this movie’s corner the minute I stepped out of the theater after seeing it for the first time. I’m registered to vote and everything.

    Nolan: what a guy. What a dude.

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    ★★★★★

    We love crying in the movie theater.

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    ★★★★½

    These are just so special.

    That opening montage is perfection.

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    ★★★★½

    I absolutely adore how this movie was shot. God damn.

    And I don’t think Jim Broadbent had gotten the credit he deserves for this characterization. Love the weird energy he brings to it, and of course the deep sadness.

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    ★★★★½

    I’ve said it before, so I’ll just say it again.

    Newell’s ceiling and floor with directing a Harry Potter movie are the closest of any director in the series. Of all the “what if X directed the entire series?” this is the one I would be the most in on.

  • The Thing

    The Thing

    ★★★★½

    Nine million have been made since, and still the only horror movies in the last 45 years that have mattered are Alien and The Thing.

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    The Shawshank Redemption

    ★★★★★

    First time in the theater. The rare actually perfect movie.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★

    This is worm territory.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★½

    Despite knowing this was coming for several years now, I purposely came into this without knowing much about the story, and lore if you will, of the Dune-iverse.

    Not the best decision, as I spent most of the film’s runtime trying to piece everything together. All of the names, politics, prophecies, and intricacies that make this such a compelling world to so many people.

    Don’t get me wrong though, Denis is absolutely still in the god-tier of directors working today, and…

  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

    ★★★★

    Seeing an adult 2D animated movie in the theaters is all I dream about.

    EKL #5

  • Twisters

    Twisters

    ★★★½

    I’m glad that Glen Powell and the word rizz came into the cultural zeitgeist at the same time. They needed one to explain the other.

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