Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2022

  We have seen similar stories before; the film reminded me of the 1965 Canadian novel, "Why Shoot the Teacher?" by Max Braithwaite -- where an urban teacher from the "Eastern Provinces" moves to the Western prairies to teach in a one-room school house; or the excellent TV series, "Northern Exposure" where New York doctor, Joel Fleischman, is tricked into accepting a job in the remote town of Cicely, Alaska. The stories share a common theme: urban man moves to a…

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  The Lavender Hill Mob 1951

  ★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jun 2021 1

  Oh, I do love this movie.
  "You can call me Al" (Did Paul Simon get that line from here?)
  "And you can call me Dutch."
  Alec Guinness is fabulous, as is Stanley Holloway. Watch for the shortest of walk-on cameos from Audrey Hepburn early in the movie.

Popular reviews

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  Hot Stuff 1971

  ★★★★★ Added

  Zlatko Grgić was my animation teacher at Concordia University in Montréal. He was a chain smoking, extremely talented, grumpy, funny, kind man. I love Hot Stuff, the gags, the poses, the timing of his animation — all fabulous. Highly recommended.

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  Black Narcissus 1947

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Mar 2020

  The Technicolor cinematography is gorgeous. Martin Scorsese said of this film, "it was like being bathed in colour"