Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  (500) Days of Summer 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  Probably the best example of split screen editing I've ever seen

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  The Secret of Kells 2009

  ★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Cartoon Saloon will always get stars for their animation style, but the plot in this one was so weak. Wolfwalkers set the bar too high for me

Popular reviews

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  The Bears and I 1974

  ★★ Watched 15 Nov 2023

  Bonus star for getting THREE REAL BEARS to cooperate

  This is exactly the kind of movie I would expect if Disney tried making movies about Princes instead of Princesses: too much VO, and a white man thinking he can teach bear cubs how to be bears, white man refusing to listen to the wisdom of Natives, all those cliches.

  I would have actually loved to see a documentary or movie based on true events about Native People's fighting with the US government over the formation of a national park, there's a lot of potential in that kind of story.

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  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Sep 2024

  I love seeing Tim Burton evolve as an artist. With the success of Beetlejuice you could really see him stepping into his comfort zone again with the practical effects and animated portions of the film, especially when compared to his recent works like Miss Peregrine’s and Wednesday. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is campy, it’s weird, and it never takes itself seriously. The script was lacking, there were too many bad guys for this to really be a five star film, but the…