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nomadland

I treated myself to a movie on my birthday. It’s the first movie I’ve watched in months. I can’t wait till Hollywood starts churning stuff out again as my queue is empty. Anyway, I’ve always liked Frances McDormand and this movie won a couple of Oscars so I figured it …

uncut gems

I wanted to like this movie. It starred Adam Sandler in a dramatic role and he did quite well with it. But it seemed like almost every scene had five people talking/yelling over each other and that wore thin pretty quickly. Basically, the movie was about a NY jeweler with …

possessor

This was the final movie in my Netflix DVD queue. I’m putting that account on hold until Hollywood starts making movies again. In retrospect, I should have quit one movie before this one. I saw an ad for this and promptly added it to my queue without doing much research–that …

the invisible man

This reboot’s plot took elements from the original rather than remaking it. It starred Elisabeth Moss, whose character left an abusive relationship with a wealthy scientist, and then begins to be stalked by an invisible man. The effects were top notch–I really liked them! Overall, it was a really great …

before sunrise

This was a movie about a man and woman who met on a train in Europe and hit it off. The man convinced the woman to spend a day with him in Vienna before he had to catch a plane back to America. Pretentiousness ensued. That’s the last time I …