Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Priscilla 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  Most of Sofia Coppola’s fascinating film is devoted to the confusions and uncertainties of a young high school girl who becomes the object of the world’s most famous rock and roll star. She is only fourteen, and finds herself the recipient of an odd, chaste love affair. He shapes and molds her into his vision of the ideal woman. He somehow convinces her father that his young teen daughter will be cared for, and he will protect her and in…

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  Rifkin’s Festival 2020

  ★★½ Watched 20 Jun 2023

  Minor Woody Allen worth watching.

Popular reviews

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  The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case 1930

  ★★★½ Rewatched 24 Feb 2015

  The ending is disappointing, otherwise this is an atmospheric and funny take-off on horror/crime films. Something different from the boys.

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  Storm Warning 1950

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2016 4

  Storm Warning is not a perfect film, however, more than 60 years later it still has the power and social significance to resonate with us today. Ronald Reagan reveals shades of the politician he would become, and both Ginger Rogers and Doris Day, in her first dramatic role, are admirable in the roles of sisters caught in a doomed triangle.