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Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Wow, this movie feels like a miracle that it exists!
  A 2D animated American film with a theatrical release! Starring Daffy Duck & Porky Pig! It's the pre-"greedy jerk" Daffy that the character has ossified into! They don't even give Bugs Bunny a cameo! The plot seems to partly riffs on The Stuff of all things! AND IT'S FUNNY!

  I'm giving this extra points just for getting a theatrical release, but DANG, this movie is something special. As a dedicated Looney Tunes (and 2D animation) fan, it made me very happy!

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  I don't quite know what to make of this one, or of Osgood Perkins as a director generally.
  I get the sense that he desperately wants to make a cult classic and to be seen as enigmatic like David Lynch. But his films never quite pull off the sense of unreality they're trying to go for and The Monkey is guilty of this. Like there are parts of the movie that felt like they were scenes from a straight-up comedy,…

Popular reviews

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  Cemetery of Terror 1985

  ★ Watched 29 Oct 2022

  I found this unbearably boring. It's got some fun Halloween touches like kids using jack o'lanterns as actual lanterns (is that a thing anyone ever does?) a couple good gore effects, but it's mostly a mess. The plot mostly just feels like "stuff happens" - I didn't care about any of the characters, the supernatural elements felt like they were there out of some sort of a sense of obligation to try to make the movie scarier, and while there were a few stylish shots, I didn't find it enough to hold my interest.

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  Hobgoblins 1988

  ★ Watched 04 Jul 2023

  It's real bad, but sometimes it's nice to watch a garbage movie with a bunch of little puppetty creatures.