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Favorite films

  • Joker
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Control
  • Bones and All

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  • Echo Valley

    ★★

  • The Life of Chuck

    ★★★★½

  • Gabriel

    ★★★★½

  • The Way Way Back

    ★★★½

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C'mon C'mon

2021

★★★★★ Rewatched

This film genuinely feels like a warm hug. From the beautiful score, the carefully crafted narrative, and the very sincere performances from the cast. On first watch I thought this one was pretty good, but on this watch, as I was this time craving for a sentimental drama tonight, I paid more attention and found so much more amazing things about this film. Throughout the tragic and heartbreaking undertone of some of the predicaments this family bunch lands in, this…

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Echo Valley

2025

★★ Watched

Painfully bland honestly. In about the first hour despite it being a bit cleche and unoriginal, I thought this film really was going somewhere virtually interesting. But once the final acts hits and unravels this film just lost me. The second half to me just feels like a complete drop off of entertainment and script quality in comparison to the first half. The first part of the movie I feel did have some thrilling pieces and had an interesting message…

The Life of Chuck

2024

★★★★½ Watched

To start off this review, this film really presents a very rare and odd feeling for an audience. In a way or at least for me, it’s main theme tackling the lines between life and death feel comforting to digest but also at the same time alarming. Which again, is a very odd thing to say but the way they make you feel those two emotions at once is nothing short of amazing. 

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Joker

2019

★★★★★ Rewatched

It was about time I watched this masterpiece of a movie again. Still to date the movie that really showed me the power of cinema and is by far my favorite of all time. Like I said in my first review of this, to me this movie is everything you could ask for and more. An absolutely moving odyssey of a character study filled with heartbreak, thrills, madness and everything in between. There’s so much to praise about this movie…

The Way Way Back

2013

★★★½ Watched

Gotta love yourself a little buddy buddy comedy. This one was great. It’s a bit on the line of cleche to formulatic comedies at times with some of its plot points, but it has a few twists to it that make it a really good watch. For one I think they definitely do a really good job of meshing drama with comedy with the main motive to Duncan befreinding this charismatic guy being him trying to find an escape from…