Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Being There 1979

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  Criterion Challenge 2025
  #1 - Watch a film from the CC40 box set
  Watched - 24/52

  Wonderfully optimistic and also very sad. I enjoyed some of the shot selection in the first part of the movie, the cinematography showing off the skyline of Washington DC.

  Our protagonist, Chance or as he was also called Chauncey, is played wonderfully by the late, great Peter Sellers. He is a man who is thrusted into the world after his "guardian" who he has…

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  The Alto Knights 2025

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  This needed much better care when it came to the editing. Several scenes just droned on for longer than they needed to and the dialogue was nothing you haven't seen before in a mob movie. It also wouldn't have been so cringe if most scenes didn't end with the "fade to black" that is typically reserved for when the movie ends, which this should have before its 2 hour-ish runtime finally eclipsed.

  Casting Robert De Niro in a dual role,…

Popular reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Sheryl Lee, the actress who plays Laura Palmer, is seriously good. The movie makes her story significantly sadder. More grit than the TV series. Great cameos including a memorable one by one of the best character actors of all time, Harry Dean Stanton.

  Supremely surreal and haunting. Every part of this film is extremely well done, especially the nightmare sequences. The soundtrack is dark and twisted. Fills in the blanks from the show.

  I need to get back into this crazy world that David Lynch created.

  Laura, you deserved much better.

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  Terrifier 3 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Oct 2024

  What was promised in the reports leading up to the release was realized, and more. This is the best of the Terrifier films so far.

  What I loved was director Damien Leone writing a love letter to the horror genre that included nods to well-known films like The Shining (Here's Johnny!!!), The Exorcist, Texas Chain Saw Massacre (but you don't got anything on Art the Clown, Leatherface!!) I also detected a little bit of Black Christmas, and The Crow perhaps?…