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Favorite films

  • Over the Edge
  • Nashville
  • Summertime
  • Nine to Five

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  • Indiscretion of an American Wife

  • When We Were Kings

  • The Sea Around Us

  • Hot Stuff

    ★½

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  • Hot Stuff

    Hot Stuff

    ★½

    This movie’s like everybody’s loser brother-in-law… doesn’t work, yet inexplicably… heavily dated.

    All these wonderful character actors in search of a plausible story end up stuck with a feature length-sketch with a few set pieces here and there.

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

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★★

    What a funny, entertaining love letter to the Clampett-era of Looney Tunes.  What a pleasure it is to see Daffy Duck back in his original unhinged characterization. What a treat to see Porky Pig, the first true superstar of Termite Terrace, finally leading a feature-length animated film.  And how wild is it to finally see Petunia Pig put to good use as a character?

    If you’re on the fence about seeing this in theaters, I implore you… get to the…

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  • Sidelined: The QB and Me

    Sidelined: The QB and Me

    ★½

    At least Romeo and Juliet had the decency to kill themselves.

  • Bones and All

    Bones and All

    ★★½

    Allow me to be direct. This is a disappointing film. The various praise I’m reading on Letterboxd seems rather misplaced, as the final product ranges from passable to meh. Other people must be watching a different movie, because the film I watched was not successful in its apparent goals. Atmosphere and authentic settings alone do not a strong movie make.

    It’s fine.  Nothing special.

    Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All — adapted from a book I haven’t read, not that it matters…