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Tag: Miles Teller

  • Movie Review: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, USA 2022)

    For a time when I was roughly 10-13 years old, I thought Top Gun (Tony Scott, USA 1986) was the greatest movie ever. I watched it many times, to the point that I can still remember every beat of it even though I haven’t seen it in more than two decades. One of the first…

  • Movie Review: “Whiplash” (Damien Chazelle, USA 2014)

    First point: The director has a truly awesome name. Anyone named Damien is awesome. The ballroom at the student center at the University of Colorado is named the Glenn Miller ballroom, after one of the most prominent swing and big bandleaders in history who briefly attended the school in the mid 1920s before dropping out.…