Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Pigs and Battleships 1961

  ★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2024

  - relate to film noir gangster
  - on location sets, tight interior locations
  - where did american actors come from
  - anti-americanism, showing the performance that attracted people to american imperial culture
  - clothing (K's jacket, 1950s the new dress silhouette)
  - pigs as a symbol
  - battleships in the background of coastal shots

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  Spaceballs 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Apr 2023

  i giggled, laughed even

Popular reviews

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  The Green Mile 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Dec 2022

  Engaging story development. Self contained within original characters and locality. Brings up questions about how the supernatural ought to fit within the real world at large. Frame narrative seemed out of place until the very end, where the pay off was great. Lots of “dark night of the soul” moments and could be a potentially good take on the prison enslavement idea, particularly in the context of the depression era south. Dialects were fun. I’m very glad Mr. Jingles is safe. Emotionally taxing movie.

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  Do Revenge 2022

  ★★½ Watched 27 Dec 2022

  Gets 75% there with the entertaining twists and catharsis of seeing people get their revenge. 25% missing is character relatability and believability of their actions, which make for an intriguing watch that kept us interested but kept it from being satisfying by the end.

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