Jess Whitehead

Actor, director, comedian, podcaster, caregiver, bon vivant, raconteur, panhandler.

Favorite films

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Duck Soup
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

All
  • The Life of Chuck

    ★★★★★

  • Winnie the Pooh

    ★★★★

  • Materialists

    ★★★★½

  • Polyester

    ★★★★½

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The Life of Chuck

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

In March of 2022, I went to see a film titled Everything Everywhere All At Once. When it was over, my legs buckled beneath me as I tried to stand. This movie had physically affected me and I knew in my gut that there wouldn't be a better movie for the rest of the year. I tell you this because I need you to know that I had the exact same reaction today to seeing The Life Of Chuck. Within…

Winnie the Pooh

2011

★★★★ Liked Watched

I put this on for my six-month-old nephew. Beautiful animation that perfectly captures the tone and joy of A.A. Milne’s stories.

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The Nutcracker

2010

½ 1

Studio executive: Ya know what kids love in their Christmas movies? Nazi imagery. And ya know what Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite could really use? Lyrics by Tim Rice. Oh and throw in Nathan Lane as Albert Einstein. Don’t ask questions. I have to go. This ether won’t finish huffing itself.

The Truth vs. Alex Jones

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Outstanding work from documentarian Dan Reed with The Truth vs Alex Jones. For someone like me who keeps tabs on Alex Jones and especially the defamation trials, it can feel a little bit like seeing an epic-length miniseries edited down to a two hour feature. But this movie is for the normal people who didn’t follow these trials obsessively.

And Reed did a great job of keeping the focus of the doc where it needed to be. He didn’t let…

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