professor__p

professor__p

Just a cinephile who rates movies higher than they should be and is looking for the forest through the trees.

Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Shutter Island
  • The Dark Knight

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  • Starship Troopers

    ★★★½

  • Annabelle Comes Home

    ★★★

  • Annabelle: Creation

    ★★★★

  • Annabelle

    ★★★½

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The Conjuring 2
★★★★ Watched

A bit sporadic and chaotic at times however I felt that it all tied in together well. Felt this was scarier than the first. I
felt very uneasy but most of the movie, even though some of the jumpscares were predictable. I felt the jumpscares that never came were just as painstaking as the ones that did happen. Never like when a horror film starts with “Based on a true story”…

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Conclave
★★★★ Liked Watched

What an interesting film. Let me start by saying that I am not Catholic but did go through Catholic education through many of my formative years. 

I found this film left me feeling very conflicted. On the one hand, the cinema itself was beautifully executed, the roles were masterfully portrayed, and the overall process of a conclave was rather truthfully displayed. One the other hand, the greed, ambition, and overall ugly side of human nature was also very much on…

Weapons
★★★½ Watched

It was a very interesting concept and honestly the first half of the movie was quite terrifying, with several suspenseful moments and tense scenes building to a jumpscare. The film is shot in a style where we live the same story over again through different characters perspectives, so the suspense becomes easier to handle each time we gain another perspective of the story. However, whether for good or for bad, by the time we finally reveal the “big bad”, the…