Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Blues Brothers 1980

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2024

  “You could leave a funny quote if you liked it” … I did! And I did!

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  A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2020

  HARK THE HERALD ANGEL SING
  *gasp*
  GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING

Popular reviews

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  Hamlet 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2020 1

  Good LORD Andrew Scott is a tour de force in this staging of Shakespeare’s tragedy. His performance, nay, the whole ensemble’s performance is captivating and I never expected to be glued to a screen for a Shakespeare play that I already know, but here we are. 

  I’d love to hug the minds behind this. I don’t know if that’s bestowed on director Robert Icke or Production Designer Hildegard Bechter or someone else completely, but they truly knocked it out of…

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  To Live 1994

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Apr 2020

  This is a second watch after IB English last year

  This movie remains so unbelievably powerful and so unbelievably well made. The revolution in China is a mere background to the emotional powerhouse that is the story of “To Live”.

  After seemingly endless death, famine, and aching one realizes just how precious it is, simply to live.

  The performances are fantastic, and capture the characters so well, in their cautious optimism, with noses eternally to the grindstone. The setting is…

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