Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Mar 2025

  This movie has been ruined for generations of potential viewers by the obsessive-types who just can’t stop quoting it (confession – I was once one of those). Made in an episodic manner, in much the style of their popular television show, but with a bigger budget and a unifying theme, it remains one of the funniest things the Pythons ever did – if you don’t find this funny, you needn’t bother with the rest. Each of the stock cast takes…

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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…

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.