Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Conformist 1970

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I shoota de movie.

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  Ben-Hur 1959

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Aug 2021

  It was the last hurrah of a dying Hollywood trend and the greatest film to come out of that era.

  You mention "Biblical epics" to a film bro and he looks at you like you just suggested "loving thy neighbor" to the Westboro Baptist congregation. It conjures up images of hundreds of extras in cheap costumes pantomiming G-rated acts of idolatry in front of a plaster golden calf. The messaging is always blunt and heavy like a sledgehammer, and so…

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