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The Spork Guy Pro

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  • Taxi Driver
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Evil Dead II
  • Brief Encounter

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  • Drugstore June

    ★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • The Shadow Strays

    ★★½

  • MoviePass, MovieCrash

    ★★★

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  • Drugstore June

    Drugstore June 2024

    ★★ Watched 13 Nov 2024

    This film is basically a 90 minute episode of Seinfeld by way of Napoleon Dynamite. It’s essentially about nothing while being partially structured as a series of semi-interconnected vignettes. Being such a bizarre film, it’s hard to tell what the goal of its humor is supposed to be. I can’t tell if Esther is purposely acting poorly as a joke, or if she’s just really that bad at acting in general. I’d hope it’s the former because I thought she…

  • Conclave

    Conclave 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2024

    Holy Cowl, if Ralph Finnes doesn’t pull an award this year, then I guess the Academy really likes Bob Dylan. Unlike CIVIL WAR, this was a timely Election Year release much more worth the praise it has garnered. Everyone was great here, with huge spotlight on Monica Bellucci for her brief yet immaculately perfect performance. Style is exchanged for tension in a grim Religious political drama by way of pulp detective serial. All in all, it’s just oddly comforting to…

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  • SLC Punk

    SLC Punk 1998

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Jun 2014 11

    SLC Punk has been called many things. It's been called a lame representation of the early hardcore era, a version of punk history made to appeal to the more hip crowd, and even a corporate fraud of a punk rock love letter. However, if one obtains the ability to view a film for what it is, rather than what it's supposed to live up to based on one's own selfish expectations, they will also see what an incredibly enthralling and…

  • The Thief and the Cobbler

    The Thief and the Cobbler 1993

    ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2014 9

    *Understand that this review is for the Recobbled Cut, not the butchered Miramax Version of the film*

    Some people have the gall to call this the "poor man's Aladdin". Though the play on words may be intended, it is not justified in the least. The Thief and the Cobbler is probably animation's most treasured sympathy story. The tortured tale of one man's dream to create his passion project had never been so depressing and inspiring at the same time. In…

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The Spork Guy's 5 Star Film Canon 151 films

  • Climax
  • Parasite
  • Marriage Story
  • Under the Silver Lake
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Top 20 Films of 2019 20 films

  • Shoplifters
  • Paddington 2
  • Blindspotting
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