Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Men with Brooms 2002

  ★★★ Watched 28 Mar 2025

  I have a soft spot for this movie. Plus watching it gives you Canadian citizenship. Which will come in handy.

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  The Hot Spot 1990

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  It's weird to love a movie and then realize you probably haven't watched it in decades.

  Don Johnson is the dark side of the Elliott Gould Philip Marlowe coin - an anachronistic presence in a modern world. From his fashion to his car, he seems to be firmly rooted in the time of the pulp noir.

  To the point where when he walks into the yellow rose at the beginning and The Stroke by Billy Squier is playing, it's excessively…

Popular reviews

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  Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo 1977

  ★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2020 1

  This movie Rise of Skywalkers Herbie Rides again, basically nullifying the plot developments of that film. This time Dean Jones returns, without transcendental enthusiast Buddy Hackett. Instead he has incel Don Knotts as his ride along mechanic.

  Herbie too has changed. No longer content with people fucking inside of him, now he wants to experience it himself, and falls in love with another car in the race, WHO ALSO TURNS OUT TO BE SENTIENT. I think this is the Conquest…

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  Manhunter 1986

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Apr 2022 2

  It's seems to be a Mann motif that whenever he focuses on a PROFESSIONAL - they have a moment of supreme satisfaction at having solved a problem. Right before things really go to shit.

  I can relate.

  It also ends with people hunting each other.

  So now I'm worried.

  I vacillate back and forth on which is the better adaptation of the source material - this or the third season of Hannibal. But it's like apples and oranges . This is cold stylish procedural and Hannibal is opera.

  Red Dragon is garbage.