Movie Journal
Peaks to Prairie: A Holistic Regenerative Approach (2025)
½
Really nice camera work and storytelling. Biased because it’s also in my backyard, but this is some great science communication.
Saw as part of Science on Screen at the Dairy Arts Center
Is This Thing On? (2025)
★★★
½
Solid flick - real people with real problems and real reflection. The pacing and flow was a bit messy, which kind of worked with the messiness of the people but also kind of didn’t work. Genuinely laughed and genuinely felt for them. More than anything, I liked the characters as people and felt like there were healthy messages about relationships that make me feel like I can recommend this movie to my friends for.
P.S. My friend said she’d heard this described as Eat, Pray, Love for men and now I feel like I should go see that.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
★★★
½
Surprisingly funny and engaging. Can’t believe it really happened like that!
Sentimental Value (2025)
★★★★
½
A beautiful dance around the theme of art and artists. I loved every performance but was truly enamored with the direction, editing, and cinematography - everything artistic made this meta commentary of art vividly alive.
Stranger Things 5: The Finale (2025)
★★★
Fun times. A lot of closing exposition. I liked it, but dang it was a lot of exposition at the end.
Marty Supreme (2025)
★★★★★
Chaos, charisma, anxiety, passion, anxiety, elation, devastation, and - most of all - anxiety.
Timothée knocks it out of this park and the next park over, and I was enamored with the pacing and story progression in a similar way to Uncut Gems checks notes ohhh yeahhh Safdie… that checks out.
Cast Away (2000)
★★★★
Tom Hanks absolutely nails this
Die Hard (1988)
★★★★
½
Quintessentially Christmas
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
★★★
Definitely well made satire, but it just… missed the mark for me.
Bring Her Back (2025)
★★★
½
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