Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stone Reader 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Nov 2023

  Cozy and meaningful. I can’t ask much more from a film.

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  Moonstruck 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Oct 2023

  Cher as charming as anyone on screen has ever been 😍

Popular reviews

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  Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Dec 2020

  A real melancholy seeps into you at the end, knowing that the world and your own circumstances make some things impossible, though they remain engraved on your heart forever. The title song is particularly moving.

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  The Spirit of the Beehive 1973

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2021

  There are many beehives and many Frankensteins in Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a story set at the beginning of Franco’s decades-long dictatorship in Spain. James Whale’s Frankenstein comes to a small, dusty Spanish village and imparts magic, particularly to Ana and Isabel, two impressionable young girls. Through long, slow takes, much symbolism, and, most strikingly, the eyes of Ana Torrent, the young girl who plays Ana, we are taken on a journey into childhood, its resiliencies…

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