Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  It’s not often you see an unexpected film this engaging and this emotional that seems to be going under the radar of most audiences. The subject matter, men in prison performing theater, sounds like Oscar bate/civic lesson no one asked for. But when my wife and I went to see Sing Sing we both found ourselves instantly found ourselves both smiling, laughing, delighted, frightened, devastated, and finally profoundly moved by this incredible motion picture. If I had my druthers this…

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  The Killer 2024

  ★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  In the bright and colorful version of John Woo’s The Killer a remake of his own film from 1989 that starred Chow Yun-Fat in a defining role for his career and the film that made John Woo a favorite with cinephiles around the world, here he seeks to upgrade but certainly doesn’t surpass his original. Everything about this remake is first rate, academy award winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential), cinematography by Mauro Feore (Avatar), a beautiful and talented international…

Popular reviews

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Sep 2019

  If Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie about music it would have been this movie.  It’s not so much a film though about music as it is about obsession, and co-dependency, in other words it’s Vertigo with drumming.

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Oct 2019

  A fascinating examination of when we seek to control those around us, and then loose control of ourselves in the process...