Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Houdini 1953

  Rewatched 05 Apr 2025

  While I have a soft spot for this movie, it is a pretty tame impression of the Houdini story which is a story I love. But it’s not a “print the legend” issue. I truly don’t understand why they’d make such bland modifications to it. For example: they have Houdini escaping a straitjacket for the first time at a magic convention dinner on stage with a bunch of straitjacketed magicians, when by all accounts (even in accessible books from the…

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  The Deadly Companions 1961

  Rewatched 01 Jan 2025

  Chill Wills is a sex icon. Reel Life South’s tape (RIP)

Popular reviews

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  Who's Harry Crumb? 1989

  ★ Watched 27 Nov 2023 2

  More notable than the film is a friend’s story of seeing it in its original run in the theater with a rasta guy smoking a giant joint in the next row, laughing throughout and every five minutes saying “What’s my mon gonna do next?”

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  Up! 1976

  Rewatched 24 Oct 2024

  Meyer’s legacy is in trouble if a major title this renowned by cult movie fans has under 300 reviews…Sheesh. I’m sure the forthcoming Severin box of restorations will change things slightly but it does alarm me. The pink, faded UP! print that played at a sold-out Alamo Brooklyn last night has been the only one in revival house circulation anyone seems to be aware of - another major marker of a catalog in trouble. Anyway, it was a scream to…