Tony Hightower Pro

Paris, France

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This, the first entry in the 26-film (plus TV series, plus books, plus-plus-plus) Zatoichi saga, is less a chop-em-up samurai bloodbath and more a character study of an utterly lethal, but ultimately kind, man who embodies the concept of honor and service.

Doughy and awkward around people as he is, the only people who don't respect this masseur-turned-sword for hire are the people who don't know him. You can see how his moral code and quiet capability informed a generation…

Liked Watched 08 Dec 2025

I would believe anything Cumberbatch, Patel, or Kingsley said to me. So, snake, no snake, maybe it's there, maybe it's not, maybe the walls are there, or not, maybe it's a dream, or not, maybe Dev Patel could talk just a little faster because I can still understand him, maybe Ben Kingsley just needs a nap, maybe the scar is a metaphor, maybe it all is, maybe Wes Anderson needs a nap too, maybe.

Popular reviews

★½ Watched 03 Oct 2024 3

This was a real testicle of my patience.

There's a vas deferens between this and a proper art-concept film.

Matthew. Buddy.

Do urethra expect us to watch five of these things, like it's some kind of Cock-Ring Cycle?

★★★★½ Liked Watched 18 Oct 2019

Parasite starts as a fun-looking little thriller about a family of grifters and their oblivious marks. But then the heat turns up, and then it finds another gear, and another, and soon everyone in the theater had stopped breathing, waiting for the next moment.

To call it a Korean "Get Out" as written by Dostoevsky kind of sells it a bit short. Hitchcock would be proud.

Bio

New Yorker living in Paris. I won on Jeopardy & Millionaire in a previous life. Now I run, dad, and ... do this.

(I'm watching a lot of French stuff of late; I'm learning the language.)

I don't give star ratings to shorts, unless they're really notable. It just seems silly.

Fun (absolutely true) fact: Romy Schneider once had a screaming breakdown on my living room floor.

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