Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Something Wild 1986

  ★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  I have very mixed feelings about this movie, which I hadn’t seen for years and years, meaning I’m coming at it older and either wiser or more cynical about some of its subtext, though also with a nostalgic pang that may make it harder to be as critical as I should. I do think that the movie’s second half is far superior to the first, and that it would’ve benefited from a more aggressive edit – one that would’ve cut…

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  Scars of Dracula 1970

  ★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  While I would not rank this among the best of Hammer’s horror films, it is one that I rather enjoy. This might partly be nostalgia – one scene I remember seeing on television as a kid, in which a man scales the outside of Dracula’s castle on a rather frail rope fashioned of bedsheets, has stuck with me for all these years. That scene is more or less lifted from the original novel, but for the most part this stays…

Popular reviews

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  A Night Out 1915

  ★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2019

  This is one of the early films Charlie Chaplin made at Essanay Studios during his year there after he left Keystone. It has many of the familiar elements from Keystone – men with silly facial hair, women who seem to enjoy flirting with transients, a dull-witted policeman, a large jealous husband, hotels and bar rooms, and a world populated with people with a propensity for solving problems with physical violence – but has more measured timing and use of the…

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  The Consequences of Feminism 1906

  ★★★½ Rewatched 07 Dec 2019 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.