Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  My Dinner with Andre 1981

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan 2023 1

  Wally drops an "Inconceivable" at 1:28:35

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  Frankenhooker 1990

  ★★★ Watched 12 Sep 2023

  I keep running into confused people so for the last time the Doctor is Frankenhooker and the creature is Super Crack's Monster

Recent reviews

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  Apollo 18 2011

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  In the last 48 hours those of us who watched this together have been trading ideas in a text chat for how to improve it, particularly the ending. To put it in high school english paper terms, it's either a "needs improvement" or "thought provoking first draft".

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  The Princess Bride 1987

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  The night before a day off school we all sat on the guest bed as a family, kids clutching their pillows and wrapped in blankets, and watched this together, as the director intended - on a scratchy old DVD attached to a very old DVD player, with the movie stopping right in the middle of the scariest part of the fire swamp. The 6 year old took this as a chance to run screaming from the room (he came back).…

Popular reviews

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  The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 2003

  ★★★★★ Added

  Unfortunately the parrots have been evicted and now have to commute in from Richmond

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  1. This is a movie where two different characters say the name of the movie during the movie. That they do not look directly at camera is a failure of imagination.
  2. This is a movie where De Palma's in the zone for the first half. The tremendous long take that starts the film off is famous, but I did not know beforehand that we would be then seeing that same story from several different viewpoints. The execution was fantastic,…