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Favorite films

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Shrek 2
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
  • The Emperor's New Groove

All
  • Ballerina

    ★★★½

  • How to Train Your Dragon

    ★★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★

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How to Train Your Dragon

2025

★★★★½ Watched

This is how you do a live action remake. 

While I grow tired of live action adaptations, I believe this is one of the few that get it right. 

Capturing the essence of the story that so many fans have loved for 15 years. 

This story is such a great metaphor for war and internalized biases. All of us have our biases that are so deeply ingrained in us and  sometimes it takes a Hiccup to shift our perspectives to humanize…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★ Watched

Did I need to see Tom Cruise in his undies for 20 minutes? No. Did I enjoy it? Also no. 

Even though I missed the first hour I will say I enjoyed it more than I thought. Stunts without a doubt were incredible and anxiety inducing.

I do think having Ethan d!e would’ve been a more impactful ending and the only way to solidify that this indeed the final reckoning

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Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Watched

Ryan Coogler you never miss.

Sinners is the perfect blend of Blaxploitation, folk horror, and of course… vampires. 

Coogler takes what we know about vampires and reinvents it to feel fresh and not at all repetitive. The biblical connections with vampires/ the devil is something that oftentimes comes off as “preachy” but Coogler portrays it in a way that even an Agnostic like myself can get behind.

Jordan’s performance without a doubt is killer, his performance as Stack & Smoke are…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023

★★★★½ Watched

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is a great way to end this trilogy. I’ve grown such a love for these characters and the themes they represent about family and finding your chosen family.

Vol 3 really amplifies those themes to the next level. Each character has grown tremendously from when we first saw them and to see them working together as a family for the last time is such a bittersweet moment. 

It has been a while since an…