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Hi my name is Justin, I left my old church because they wouldn't let me watch movies.

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • The Neon Demon
  • Under the Skin
  • Let the Right One In

All
  • The Assessment

    ★★★★½

  • Corner Office

    ★★★★½

  • Magazine Dreams

    ★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★

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Under the Skin

2013

★★★★★ Liked 4

"So why do you shop at night, then?"
"People wind me up."
"How?"
"They're ignorant."

The Female has been expressly designed to entice and lure males of the target species, delivering them to be harvested for their meat. She's tracked by an ever-lurking handler, who monitors her for aberrant personality growth and acts as a deterrent against attempts to deviate from her prescribed role. Her body autonomy was revoked before she was born but this isn't considered to be an…

Mulholland Drive

2001

★★★★★ Liked 11

"You want me to make this easy for you? No, no fucking way, it's not gonna be! IT'S NOT EASY FOR ME!"

How can you go on living once you've chosen evil and the consequences are closing in and it's too late for dreams, too late for forgiveness, too late even for acceptance of fate? Why continue existing now that you've failed your goals and discarded your morality, revealing your deepest self to be nothing like the pleasant persona you've…

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Corner Office

2022

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I have to be nice all the time, but I'd rather be honest.

Some descriptions of this movie say it's a comedy, but not for me it wasn't, not even of the dark comedy variety. For me it was just plain devastating and there was nothing funny about it. That's not to say I disliked Corner Office though, as you can see by my score I was actually profoundly moved by it.

If you are odd, eccentric, different, weird, or…

Magazine Dreams

2023

★½ Watched

In keeping with the theme of magazines: we've all got issues, but some people have SUBSCRIPTIONS.

This is not the movie I was expecting, and I mean that in a bad way. The emotional low point is the middle 95% of the runtime, just waaaaaay too misery-porny for my taste.

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Brand New Cherry Flavor

2021

★★ 3

Mehhhhhhh. The synopsis and marketing write a check the actual product can't cash. The strong first episode sets up a basic but promising revenge tale of a young female director trying to even the score against a predatory producer but we take so many ridiculous twists and turns along the path that you don't even care that much by the time you finally get to the messy, lackluster payoff. There's a metric shit ton of body horror stuff which should…

The English

2022

★★★½ Watched

This show is a mixed bag. My primary thought is that this really should've just been a movie, there's a ton of fat on these bones which could've been trimmed to a lean(er) 2-2.5 hour runtime and saved us some needless narrative sidetracks not to mention an entire wasteful flashback episode.

Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer are both outstanding and the first two episodes focus squarely on them and get the show off to a good gallop but the wheels…