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  Million Dollar Baby 2004

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  The way that one screenwriter had such a stranglehold over the Academy for two straight years by handing in the most tone-deaf, melodramatic, 'everything you're expecting to happen does' scripts will continue to fascinate me. In between rewarding Peter Jackson for cinematic sorcery and Martin Scorsese and the Coen Brothers for their surest cinematic statements yet, the Academy was all about rewarding an abusive scientologist with unrealistic views of minorities, disabilities, poor people and morals in general.

  Anyway this is…

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  The Gorge 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I don’t know, if you’re a screenwriter and you say you haven’t thought of an idea that’s just ‘what if the demilitarized zone were sexy and Lovecraftian’ then you’re lying. 

  The Apple sheen robs this of some credibility. If this had been made for theaters it’d have slightly better effects but even with that it’s better than most Apple features. Derrickson knows to have some practical effects, actual sets, great set pieces and a definite visual style. The script is…

Popular reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  “Hi, you’ve reached Bryan Adams…yes…okay, for what?……why????……I mean, I suppose it’s alright..”

  It’s opposite To Serve Man. It’s John Carpenter, it’s Larry Cohen. It’s Clampett and it’s Tashlin. It’s subversive and classic and they made it for themselves.  Of course I loved it. Bravo.  Encore.

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  Marnie 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025 2

  I just want to state for the record that nobody else from Philadelphia sounds like that. That's the joy of Sean Connery. He can play British, Irish, Russian, Philadelphian, and they all shound like thish. Americans can't really get away with that. Jeff Goldblum couldn't play a Scot with that same Jeff Goldblum voice.

  At the very least, Philly plays itself, as does Mays Landing, so I can fault the lack of effort on dialect coaching Connery on the ins…