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  • Inside Llewyn Davis

    Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

    ★★★ Watched 10 May 2020 3

    What a downer this was. We're not really supposed to like Llewyn Davis as a character, although he is portrayed well by Oscar Isaac. Instead, we're to admire him as a bitter, uncompromising starving artist, one of many folk artists who drifted from town to town doing gigs during the early 1960s. Think of this as the complete antithesis of A Mighty Wind. True, there are a few chuckles: the whole cat scenario for one, and the song featuring Justin…

  • And Soon the Darkness

    And Soon the Darkness 1970

    ★★★★ Watched 15 Jun 2024 1

    This is all about painting a suspenseful setup. The suspense is built with a combination of mysterious characters, shady police, and the fact that the two girls at the heart of the story don't speak French, while everyone else in the movie does.

    There's the beautiful French landscape, the mysterious woods, and rural roads that go on for miles. You don't know who to trust amongst the various characters encountered, and the lovely protagonist is believably suspicious of everyone. The…

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  • Triangle

    Triangle 2009

    ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2017

    Psychological thrillers didn't get much more twisty or mind-bendingly memorable back in 2009 than this British classic from writer-director Christopher Smith. Beautiful Melissa George stars as a single mother of an autistic son, and she joins a male friend and his friends for an innocent boating trip. After a storm capsizes the boat, the survivors board a seemingly abandoned ocean liner for safety. Nothing is what it seems after that. Smith builds the tension while playing with time structure and…

  • Once Upon a Time in Queens

    Once Upon a Time in Queens 2021

    ★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024

    If you wonder why the name sounds familiar, that's because there was a 2013 film starring Paul Sorvino, Michael Rapaport, and Chazz Palminteri with the same title. But this 2021 four-part 30-for-30 documentary does what today's long-form format does best: tackle a topic as thoroughly and painstakingly as it deserves. Even though there is already a standalone episode in the series about Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, this one covers all aspects of that time period, with a fascinating in-depth…

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  • The Minus Man

    The Minus Man 1999

    ★★★½ Watched 08 Oct 2001

    I tell people all the time that Owen Wilson once played a serial killer back in 1999. No one ever believes me. Here you go.

  • Pain and Glory

    Pain and Glory 2019

    ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2020

    Antonio Banderas has never been better as Salvador Mallo, an aging writer-director who looks back at aspects of his life with sadness and regret. His story is told through flashbacks of him as a nine-year-old boy (with his mother played by the wonderful Penélope Cruz) and much more recently, just before his aging mother dies (not played by Penélope Cruz). She surprises him by saying that he was not always the best son to her, and her death leaves him…

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