Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Death Line 1972

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Donald Pleasance is so unpleasant in this it's like he's a big guy named Tiny. He's great but he really underscores the fact that you should avoid talking to cops whenever possible, as true today as it was in the wet brown England of 1972. This movie has a few verrrrrry languorous sweeps across an interior landscape of gross-outs-- horror fans of the current era might be like "enough already" but I admired the trust that the filmmakers put in…

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  Shall We Dance 1937

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Fred Astaire tries to woo Ginger Rogers like he's an actual child talking to their first crush-- weird voices, insults, lies, getting your friend to say stuff for you, saying shit like "we are going to get married", etc.. The moment when it clicks (while dancing of course) is really nice. With the original "You Say Potato" and other Gershwin joints.

Popular reviews

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  The Girl on the Broomstick 1972

  Watched 11 Sep 2024 2

  wow, if you're looking for a whimsical 1970s Czechoslovakian movie about a cute teen witch, this is the one. I loved it. great vibe all the way through, all the witches and warlocks looked cool and imaginative, a perfect little Halloween romp for all ages.

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  Phenomena 1985

  Watched 10 Sep 2023 1

  Dario Argento said later that this movie is set in a fictional timeline in which the Nazis won, and that's why the vibe is so weird. That's possible but it's also an incredible cop out for a movie where the vibe is weird, the performances are bad, and it seems like something is eerily missing. It feels like spin. Anyway it's not as good as his other movies but I had fun watching this and there were some good gross-outs…