Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Down in the Delta 1998

  Watched 27 Feb 2025

  With respect to Dr. Angelou…I can see from where and whom TP took his cues.

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  The French Connection 1971

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  What this gets as a period piece that no modern depiction of the 70s can, is just how FILTHY and gritty a city felt. “LIVED IN” as a descriptor of set design exists because it’s such an accurate portrayal of human touch and evidence and refuse in spaces and scenes. Nothing’s manicured, filtered, or oversaturated. Just the facial portrayal of New York, its seedy corners and cracked walls. The boxy cars spitting out the exhaust-choked air that brings the only…

Popular reviews

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  Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 Jan 2024

  Saw it originally in theaters at time of release:
  Dudes hate this movie because it doesn’t conform to their brooding, grim-dark vision of Gotham or any Batman lore and that’s a damned shame. Because their praise of a Nolanverse or a Sn*derverse ignores the reality that Batman had its prevalence in mass media through the campiest, most vibrant television show of the ‘60s! This film picks up the baton left by Schumacher’s nipple-suited, campy caped crusader and places one of…

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  This movie has everything:
  Hot, devastated and nerdy Theo James
  Pale, unhinged and still hot Theo James
  Fun kills!
  Acceptance of death via dancing when you can and a great shot in the third act that frames Theo James in such starkly Old Hollywood styled lighting that you can’t help but appreciate Osgood’s eye.
  Great planting and payoff in both the horror and comedy, Perkins doesn’t treat that haha-horror relationship with cheapness nor contrivance (though I love the two Rube Goldberg machine moments) but understands that it’s all in the timing