Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Circus 1928

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  He’s a charmer

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  The Crowd 1928

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Wow, I hadn’t heard of King Vidor before I watched this and The Big Parade the other day but damn, dude can make a picture

  Also Wes Anderson has totally borrowed a line from this!

Popular reviews

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  As a journalist what was particularly difficult was hearing the filmmakers discuss how few people were finding their online dispatches and many terrible things are going unnoticed, or just ignored

  This movie still doesn’t have a US distributor, yet it’s grossed more in theatres than the other Oscar best documentary nominees 

  It was beautiful to see the movie win the award 2 hours after walking out of the screening

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  Drop Dead Gorgeous 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Dec 2024 2

  Totally on fire. Probably my favorite midwestern accent in movies (not counting documentaries). Fricken All-star cast and you can tell they’re having so much fun. Everyone is so effortlessly good it makes you wonder why all movies can’t be this funny

  With the accents it’s fun to see which words and phrases really cut through you, like “bark” “stockyards” and “oh crap”

  And why is this movie hard to find?