Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cyclone 1978

  ★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  Lost at sea in what feels like real time

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  The White Gorilla 1945

  ★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Repurposed silent film material in a wraparound narrated by Ray "Crash" Corrigan. To some extent I'm captivating by the process of making the old footage into a new story, but in general these patch-ups are never very satisfying. I'll give it one thing, there is a lot of gorilla-suit action. I used to have to stay up ungodly late to catch something this disappointing on TV, but now I can watch it any time with the push of a button on YouTube. What a time, etc.

Popular reviews

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  The Wicked Lady 1983

  Watched 23 Feb 2022

  No one does scary eyebrows like Faye Dunaway

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  The Bad Guys 2022

  ★★★ Watched 26 Nov 2022 2

  It's easy to sneer at the kind of kid's movie that's loaded with jokes and references for the grown-ups in the audience, mostly because that seems to be the default mode for family films now. My son had the first Bad Guys book and I think it was like 20 pages long, so I'm going to assume The Bad Guys is an adaptation in only the broadest sense. If I were being snarky I'd say this is like a film…

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