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  The Boogeyman 2023

  ★★★ Watched 19 Jun 2023

  Sisters Sadie (Sophie Thatcher, "Yellowjackets") and Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair, "Bird Box") are grieving their mother's recent death when a strange creature begins haunting their home. Their psychologist father (Chris Messina, "The Mindy Project") is not fully engaged, so he doesn't listen to their pleas for help. They decide to fight the evil themselves before the creature destroys them all.

  Based on a short story by Stephen King, this modest chiller keeps audience interest by offering solid work by the…

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  Singin' in the Rain 1952

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Jan 2007

  Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Oscar-nominee Jean Hagen) are major silent stars who, at the start of the film, are at the premiere of their latest picture, "The Royal Rascal." On the red carpet, Don tells the audience (and us) about his beginnings as a stunt man and dancer, including his partnership with friend Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor).

  After the successful premiere, he narrowly escapes a fan mob by jumping into the car of Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds),…

Popular reviews

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  Superman III 1983

  ★★★ Added

  Compared to the first two entries in the series, this feels far inferior. Yet it is not a bad film. There are plenty of things to be entertained by, from Pryor's likable computer hacking minor criminal to Superman's dual-personality fight in the middle of the film.

  A number of things happened to create the circumstances for a lesser sequel this time around. Due to the bad feelings some cast members felt toward producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind for firing Richard…

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  Into the Woods 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Dec 2014

  A baker and his wife encounter a witch, who tells them she'll grant them a wish to have a child if they can bring her four ingredients for a spell that will undo a curse put upon their family: "the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold." So the couple venture into the dreaded woods to find these items and, in the process…