Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  Watched 10 Jan 2025

  108 Angry Men? That’s cinema, baby

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  The Final Sacrifice 1990

  ★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2024

  The first MST3K episode I saw as an unsuspecting kid on Saturday morning tv, irrevocably changing the course of my life.

Popular reviews

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  Barton Fink 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Apr 2014

  Really good. The Coens seem self-critical of solipsistic young Jewish creative types, John Goodman was hilarious and huge, and the construction of the hotel's atmosphere was excellent.

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  Game of Death 1978

  ★½ Watched 15 May 2014

  Moviemaking malpractice. Stitching together a handful of Bruce Lee's old scenes, new scenes with body doubles, _very poor_ special effects and shockingly distasteful footage of the man's wake, this is hard to defend as much more than a brazen cash grab while Lee's name had been recently granted its legendary posthumous aura. I guess if they had the material to do this sort of thing with James Dean, it would have happened within a couple years of his demise, too…