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  • City Lights
  • Lonesome
  • The Phantom Carriage
  • Singin' in the Rain

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  • The Luck of the Irish

    ★★★

  • Gun Crazy

    ★★★

  • Bruce Almighty

    ★★½

  • It Conquered the World

    ★★½

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  • The Luck of the Irish

    The Luck of the Irish

    ★★★

    The ending of this movie does a lot more than I remembered, nice to see a celebration of cultural heritage and immigrants with an important folk song. 

    I also forgot that this movie HATES Ohio.

  • It Conquered the World

    It Conquered the World

    ★★½

    There’s some fun schlock here along with the occasional trying to say something serious. The message is that we are humans and we need to feel emotions. And you feel emotions when a bat/flying squirrel type creature gets yeeted at Peter Graves.

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  • Show People

    Show People

    ★★★★½

    Actors in the movie being referenced by their real name, ranked:

    1. Marion Davies finding Marion Davies disappointing in Show People
    2. Ralph Bellamy being described as looking like “that guy in the movies, Ralph Bellamy” in His Girl Friday

    My goodness, what a wonderful film. I knew I liked this immediately. It opens with a visual buffet for a fan of old movies: shots of places all over Hollywood, ending with the movie studios. It stays a love letter…

  • The Crowd

    The Crowd

    ★★★★★

    Made in 1928, The Crowd is just as modern as ever and is one of the finest films at capturing what ordinary life is like.

    All the moments of life are presented: childhood dreams, childhood trauma, falling in love, the struggles of marriage, the struggles of making a living, the randomness of good events and random horrors. 

    Although it’s often told in stark images—our hero as a child learns of his father’s death as a mountainous staircase follows behind him—everything in…

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