Reviews
Oppenheimer (2023)
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AaaronOctober 27, 2025
AaaronOctober 27, 2025Nolan was actually asked, "Which actors do you want?" and he replied, "ALL of THEM!!!
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
AAaaronOctober 27, 2025
AaaronOctober 27, 2025the story says that people who saw this in a café in Paris ran away thinking that a train was really coming towards them...
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
AAaaronOctober 27, 2025
AaaronOctober 27, 2025It has to be put in all film schools to teach how to make a film
Casino (1995)
AAaaronOctober 27, 2025
AaaronOctober 27, 2025Scorsese doesn't make you a bad movie even if he wants to, but this movie has such an unbridled pace, that sometimes it ends up being overwhelming. I ended up exhausted after watching it, those moments of pause that are key were missing.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
AAaaronOctober 27, 2025
AaaronOctober 27, 2025How did this movie make me shit please!!!!! There's nothing bigger than cinema
Familiar Touch (2024)
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Alex SoutheyOctober 26, 2025
Alex SoutheyOctober 26, 2025Aw man :(
Familiar Touch, the new drama from Sarah Friedland, is tender to the touch. Its subject is one that is sure to tug on heartstrings: Octogenarian Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) suffers from serious memory problems. She must transition to life in an assisted living facility. H. Jon Benjamin (best known for voice acting), plays her son Steve. In an opening scene that lays out plainly how lost Ruth has become, she hits on her son, and doesn’t remember visiting–or even picking–the living facility at which she quickly finds herself.
Benjamin exudes the weight of the responsible son. His eyes are consistently wet and heavy, betraying the comfort he wishes to convey to his mother — who is more like a child now than a guardian. Her first night in the new room is unfamiliar and therefore uncomfortable. Gone not only are her physical possessions, but so are her furnished memories, important to have around to make a house feel like a home. No one likes a first night in a new place where there’s no end in sight to the stay, not even those we as a society deem over the hill of learning and living, apparently content to sit like ornaments that represent family history and semi-abstract wisdom.
Chalfant conveys these inconsistencies of Ruth’s reality masterfully. Her behaviour shifts awkwardly — on purpose — from a poised, self-possessed woman to that of a vacant, confused, sad “octogenarian.” In the latter mode, she emphasizes her age and its apparent betrayals. Ruth, here and there, experiences moments of true recognition: She knows she does not always know how she feels or how she comes across to others..."
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Familiar Touch, the new drama from Sarah Friedland, is tender to the touch. Its subject is one that is sure to tug on heartstrings: Octogenarian Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) suffers from serious memory problems. She must transition to life in an assisted living facility. H. Jon Benjamin (best known for voice acting), plays her son Steve. In an opening scene that lays out plainly how lost Ruth has become, she hits on her son, and doesn’t remember visiting–or even picking–the living facility at which she quickly finds herself.
Benjamin exudes the weight of the responsible son. His eyes are consistently wet and heavy, betraying the comfort he wishes to convey to his mother — who is more like a child now than a guardian. Her first night in the new room is unfamiliar and therefore uncomfortable. Gone not only are her physical possessions, but so are her furnished memories, important to have around to make a house feel like a home. No one likes a first night in a new place where there’s no end in sight to the stay, not even those we as a society deem over the hill of learning and living, apparently content to sit like ornaments that represent family history and semi-abstract wisdom.
Chalfant conveys these inconsistencies of Ruth’s reality masterfully. Her behaviour shifts awkwardly — on purpose — from a poised, self-possessed woman to that of a vacant, confused, sad “octogenarian.” In the latter mode, she emphasizes her age and its apparent betrayals. Ruth, here and there, experiences moments of true recognition: She knows she does not always know how she feels or how she comes across to others..."
To read the full review, head to ThatShelf.com
One Battle After Another (2025)
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Popcorn MonologuesOctober 26, 2025
Popcorn MonologuesOctober 26, 2025What makes PTA, Tarantino, or the Coen Brothers so good at their craft is they are able to take 'absurdist' or 'uncomfortable' stories and execute them in a fashion that will invoke a multitude of emotions.
The writing in this film is phenomenal - and it's so layered that folks will laugh, cry or feel cringe at different moments based on your connections.
If I had to oversimplify a comparison - this is like the Big Liebowski meets Taken. The dude lives in Bob.
I wish there was more Sensei.
I want to watch this film again purely because I feel like there's more to laugh at it.
Everyone go watch this.
The writing in this film is phenomenal - and it's so layered that folks will laugh, cry or feel cringe at different moments based on your connections.
If I had to oversimplify a comparison - this is like the Big Liebowski meets Taken. The dude lives in Bob.
I wish there was more Sensei.
I want to watch this film again purely because I feel like there's more to laugh at it.
Everyone go watch this.
