Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dark Star 1974

  ★★★ Watched 11 Nov 2024

  pinback: the movie

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  Made in America 1993

  ★ Watched 28 Aug 2024

  One of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen, and I'm not even talking about the scene where Will Smith jizzes in a cup; there's an extremely lurid and extended sex scene between Danson and Goldberg, which is made 100x worse by the fact that they had an actual affair in real life during the filming of this movie. Disgusting.

Popular reviews

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  Uncle Buck 1989

  ★★★★★ Added

  Unironically one of the greatest films ever made. John Hughes and John Candy at their best, not to mention Macaulay Culkin and others on point here as well -- but ultimately this movie is solely a vehicle for Candy; every time he is on camera, the mise-en-scène is arranged entirely around him and his ability to go wild. He steals every scene he's in.

  What becomes clear when watching this film is the notion that Uncle Buck was intentionally crafted…

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  Weekend at Bernie's 1989

  ★★★½ Added

  Giving a synopsis of the Weekend at Bernie's plot to someone who's never heard of or seen it, it would likely seem to describe an idea so bizarrely morbid and upsetting for a comedy movie that its actual existence would have to be seen to be believed — the outline for this movie on its own sounds as though it could've been entirely written, out of inspiration from heroin-withdrawal fever dreams, by an actual psychopath — and yet, ultimately the way in…