Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Farmer Jim would have cleaned up at Bearracuda.

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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  It starts out cute enough but once the plot kicks in, it gets increasingly stupid, silly and predictable. The script isn’t all that clever, the direction is serviceable at best. Quaid is charming, but this just didn’t work for me.

Popular reviews

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

  I was on the edge of my folding chair! The screening was moved to a smaller screen so my husband and I had to watch the film in the back on folding chairs and it speaks to the quality of the movie that I didn’t care all that much cause what was on screen was so compelling. Some of the best horror imagery in years. The script feels a little light on the first viewing, but everything else is gothic horror heaven. 

  Oh! And it’s absolutely a Christmas movie.

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  The Last Showgirl 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2024

  I find Vegas, and in particular the women of Vegas, forever fascinating. It’s a uniquely hard life that is inherently dramatic and for the most part, The Last Showgirl captures that better than any film I’ve seen about the subject. My only gripe is the cinematography, which is unnecessarily messy, and gets in the way of some of the best performances and writing of the year. Pamela Anderson is even better than I had heard. It’s so wonderful to see…