Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Men O' War 1929

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Mar 2025

  The origin of "D'oh!"

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  The River of Romance 1929

  ★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  A film that highlights the horrors that the antebellum South inflicted on... white men getting pressured into duels. One wonders how Walthall felt getting typecast as "the guy from Birth of a Nation". One wonders how Griffith felt when his copycats started getting more successful.

  The good news is that after a melodramatic first half that is equal parts boring and evil, the second half is a black comedy about Wallace Beery teaching Buddy Rogers how to be a gangster. They're both great, as is Walter McGrail as the grandiloquent gentleman villain.

Popular reviews

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  The 'Teddy' Bears 1907

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Jul 2021

  This should have inspired a whole genre of fairy tale adaptations where the antagonist gets murdered by the President of the United States.

  Lincoln vs the Big Bad Wolf.

  JFK vs Ursula the Sea Witch.

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Oct 2023

  -Regarding my called shot from yesterday: John Ford’s The Iron Horse ends with two men shaking hands in front of a train. This begins likewise.
  -Mollie manages to get exactly three words out of Calvin Coolidge.
  -Lily Gladstone deserves all the acclaim she’s getting, but we also need to see a lot more of Cara Jade Myers.
  -People complained when The Irishman compressed decades of time using cutting edge special effects, so this compresses decades of time with 1940s special effects.
  -What holds this back for me is how performative DiCaprio’s permanent scowl feels. Hopefully it grows on me.