Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989

  Watched 01 Dec 2024

  The Estate of Raymond Scott should have sued the score of this.

  Update: Apparently they did

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  Francis Covers the Big Town 1953

  Rewatched 29 Nov 2024

  Because my partner's a Lubinhead.

  Hadn't expected so much NY location photography.

  And not that it's a new idea, but did Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese have Francis's owner, who makes no attempt to cover up that his animal friend can talk and keeps winding up in psychiatric wards, in mind when they made One Froggy Evening?

Popular reviews

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  The Man I Love 1946

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Nov 2024

  Hadn't heard anything about this Walsh before coming in but really loved it. As much a musical and a family melodrama as a noir. The cast (most of whom I didn't know) sell the pleasingly ripe dialogue - the whole world feels fresh and lived in and the conflicts messy, passionate and real.

  I'd always liked Ida Lupino as an actor but she is just amazing here. Petey's an aspirational figure.

  Love the music too; curious whether the rhapsodic version…

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  The Breaking Point 1950

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Nov 2022

  Never seen it before, but boy is this one of the greatest and maybe realest (the marriage!) noirs. Amazing classic Hollywood dialogue throughout (the mother calling her kids "Fresh" a tiny moment among more quotable lines that I won't butcher with bad paraphrase) and (semi-spoilers but what did you expect in a noir - a happy ending?) one of the saddest and most unexpected final shots I've ever seen.

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