Joshua Philips

Favorite films

  • Drive My Car
  • Chungking Express
  • Talk to Her
  • Senna

All
  • Logan Lucky

    ★★★★

  • Adaptation.

    ★★★½

  • Star Wars

    ★★★

  • Le Mans 1955

    ★★★

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Wicked

2024

★★★ Watched

Ariana Grande is delightful as Galinda (Glinda). Cynthia Erivo delivers a fantastic performance. Some scenes looked inexplicably dull and lacking in color. I still had a great time.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964

★★★★½ Watched

Adored watching this. It’s wonderful. I went from snapping my fingers to conducting an imaginary orchestra, then found myself welling up by the end. A lovely piece of cinema.

The growing hostility toward movie musicals in recent times has been shocking to me. Disinterest has always existed, but what was once a ive preference has morphed into an active, almost aggressive disdain from large sections of movie audiences. I don’t understand why. Every argument I’ve seen against them has been…

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They Cloned Tyrone

2023

★★★ Watched

Love the cast. Good performances across. Very funny in parts. A lot of potential to be properly great. Its fine. By Netflix standards nowadays this is probably as good as it gets.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

★★★★★ Liked 1

"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written."

Chills. That line sent chills though my spine.

As a boy from the age of nine to thirteen I watched this with my cousins over and over, which probably makes it the film I've seen the most times in my life. It's been maybe a decade since I last saw it and coming back with grown eyes it's even better than I .

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