Aaron Polevoi

Oct 15, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Aaron Polevoi

★★★★ Like him or hate him (very much so in the “hate” camp) Donald Trump is impossible to avoid as an American in 2024 (or perhaps a citizen of the world) and his statement ripping The Apprentice was a major endorsement to see this film. Trump’s presidency gave us a lot of performers doing caricature-like impersonations (I.e Alec Baldwin on SNL) but god DAMN no one has fully transformed into Trump like Sebastian Stan did for this role. Between the makeup and mannerisms, it’s as believable of...

Oct 13, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Aaron Polevoi

★★★½ Way cooler than I thought it would be.

Sep 6, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Aaron Polevoi

★★★★ Netflix has served up as arguably the most slop of any major streamer in 2024 (Unfrosted, A Family Affair, Land of Bad, The Union, Incoming, etc.) but credit must be given when a straight-to-streaming movie rules, and Rebel Ridge is exactly that. It’s simple recipe, really: make movies about the downfall of corrupt cops and I will watch. Throw in shady Don Johnson, some great hand-to-hand combat, a protagonist with the widest of moral compasses, and sequences that will have you on the...

Sep 4, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Aaron Polevoi

The most normalized ghost story? This is a classic but it’s been YEARS since I’d seen this! I grew up on the West Coast but I now live in the Upper Midwest, about two hours from the Field of Dreams site, so I wanted to throw this on, especially as it’s still baseball season. So much inexplicable, outlandish shit happens here and yet it just somehow works? Like the premise is sort of ridiculous but there I was tearing up during the first Shoeless Joe appearance.

Sep 1, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Aaron Polevoi

★★★★ “NICE FUCKING MODEL!” the cool thing about the 80s was some movies being afforded an F-bomb and still being rated PG.