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Black Hawk Down for only the second time. How do movies like this even get made? Seriously, the failed raid scene that seems to go on forever makes the beginning of Saving Private Ryan seem tame by comparison. Unrelentingly intense and so full of testosterone it's ridiculous.

Virtuoso film making and acting for the entire running time. Blown the **** away. Again.

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Jane Got a Gun


Good movie about family, loyalty, tragedy, and standing ones ground. Natalie Portman looked fantastic in cowgirl attire and her costars were great actors too. Got a little dull at times but the imagery of the film- setting, costumes, eccentricity of characters made it worthwhile.

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Exo

I really really enjoyed it. Helps when you learn that the whole film is based off of Korean folklore about demons, ghost guardians, and evil spirits. The back and forth of who do you believe was great. Started slow for sure, but I really got into it half way through. His other films, The Chaser and Yellow Sea, are also really good.

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Re: The Wailing

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I've got the entire evening to myself but found myself overwhelmed by the first-world burden of having too much great content at my disposal to ingest and didn't know quite what to dive into.

Then, serendipitously, an old friend dropped me a line on FB asking whether or not I'd seen the film, Mindwalk. He knew I loved My Dinner with Andre, Network, Citizen4, and other dialog-driven sociological films, and thought it might be right up my alley.

Read the synopsis and it sounded like precisely the intellectual distraction I needed this evening, so I cued it up.

Frame 1, before we're even off the black... and you hear Philip F***ing Glass.

Opening shot - a young Sam Waterson from 1990. Thrilled to see he'd be playing a politician among the three central characters.

This calls for popcorn. See you in 2 hours.

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Janszoon

It's funny you bring this movie up. The first time my parents' took me to see a movie at an arthouse cinema, there was a poster for Mindwalk in the lobby. It caught my eye for whatever reason, and though I still have never seen it, I've always wondered about it. I'm curious to hear what you think of it.

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Lion

2016 really is becoming one of my favorite years for film with early gorgeous films like Neon Demon and The Witch to the one true love of my life....La La Land to Moonlight and the amazing Hidden Figures and Lion is no exception.

actually it's probably ties with Arrival for my 2nd favorite film to come out this year.

i can honestly say that i have not had a film touch me to the core quite like Lion did. A basically sold out show last night and not a single person made it though the film with out an all out breakdown in emotion. That's how good this is.

so basically a young boy in India accidentally falls asleep on a train and is transported about 1400 miles from home. he does not speak the local language and mispronounces the name of the town he is from. Calcutta sucks. Everybody is rude, they simple don't care and child predators are everywhere (there is an almost nauseating scene with this)

He finally gets taken to an orphanage (more like a prison for little kids) and is adopted by a young Australian couple (the woman being played by a damn near perfect Nicole Kidman)...the couple also adopts another young Indian boy.

cut to Saroo as an adult....he has basically been lying to himself and everyone he meets till he has a memory and decides it's time to find out where he came from by using Goggle Earth.

heart wrenching is the only way to describe this one....but really in a good way.

The use of technology intermixed with the cinematography was amazing....the entire ensemble was perfect...there are a couple scenes where Kidman reminds you that she is s stellar actress. The little boy is amazing.

this is the type of film i feel all of humanity should see.

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Bill Burr has a new special on Netflix and holy ****...it's awful.

Frownland

I thought it was good but not up to par with his other specials. That Kanye West joke bombed as **** though and that's kind of funny in itself.

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