Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Larceny, Inc. 1942

  ★★★ Watched 30 Mar 2018

  Fluff crime comedy about a recidivist crook (Robinson) fresh out of jail who, with a couple of loveable lughead partners, buys a leather store next to a bank so they can tunnel through to the vault, but starts to accidentally go straight as business booms and the community of merchants with surrounding stores come to respect and admire him. Charming and might make for a good low-key Christmas movie. Robinson really seems at home with the comedy and gives a good turn.

  I actually think this could make for a good modern remake, too, if somebody did it right.

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  Kid Galahad 1937

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2018

  Good boxing movie directed by Michael Curtiz. I like these old movies where Bogart plays a baddie-he's so good at it. And it was interesting to actually get to hear Edward G. Robinson speaking a little Italian in a role.

Popular reviews

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  Carnival Magic 1983

  ★★ Watched 30 Apr 2017 2

  So, a middle-aged magician who was raised by monks in Nepal after his parents were killed by the Japanese in WWII taught a chimp named Alex to talk and after getting fired from his job at a failing, low-rent carnival because he pisses off the big cat trainer by talking to his animals and weirding them out is convinced to use said chimp, who sometimes sounds like Billy Bob Thornton in Slingblade, in his act from now on to keep…

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  Skins 2017

  ★★★ Watched 11 May 2017

  Visually fascinating, but juggling too many characters leaves it feeling emotionally shallow and, in opposition to its purpose (what I think it is, anyway, but I'm an idiot), more of a simple freakshow than a character study. It's also not all that funny. Macarena Gómez gives one of the few performances that actually manages to be emotionally affecting, and without her this movie would probably be memorable only for the very strange sights it offers.

  To be clear, this movie…