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Recent reviews

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  The Wrong Man 1956

  ★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Not my favorite Hitchcock but not even the greats can always bat a thousand. At the start of the film I enjoyed the Noir like Hitch introductions use of shadows of NYC and the big man’s introduction. However the film lost me when after getting accused wrongly of crime he didn’t commit Henry Fonda as Chris gets interrogated in some of the worst police work I’ve seen on film. C.S.I. and Law and Order has come a long way from these sleuths. That alone took me right out of the film.

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  X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 1963

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Aug 2019

  X is a departure from much of what Roger Corman directed before and after Dr. Xavier takes the fateful first drops of Compound X into his eyes. Extremely ambitious starting Academy Award Winner Ray Milland turning a performance that elevates a Drive-In sci-fi movie script. Not the megalomaniac style scientist like Doctor Griffin in “The Invisible Man” but a true visionary for helping advance humanity. After all x-ray vision could revolutionize the medical arts. As Stephen King wrote in his…

Popular reviews

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  Rope 1948

  Watched 10 Feb 2020

  I was very surprised by this one because I feel that coldness that Stewart had after his WW2 experiences and it was perfect for this film.

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  The Batman 2022

  Watched 03 Mar 2022

  As far as BATMAN adaptions go this film is the closest live action that captures the feeling of the storylines I had been reading from 1987 to about 1999. Add the elements of the Arkham Knight games series, up the detective elements of the character and you have a hit. Add some inspiration from a film like Seven, and add some feelings of current events and you have something that will be debated for awhile.