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  Scent of a Woman 1992

  ★★★½ Rewatched 26 Mar 2025

  Those who criticize the Academy Awards as they are now would do themselves well to explore the history of the ceremony and just how often the tropes of today occurred decades ago. That is, it’s fascinating that of all the terrific m and nuanced performances that Pacino had behind him, and ahead of him, this would be the only film that actually delivered him an Academy Award. The film is a great deal more melodramatic than the actor’s earlier work,…

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

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  After far too long, we have finally been given a new Looney Tunes movie, and for the most part, it doesn’t disappoint. It teeters at times towards gross out humor contrary to its classic origins, but fortunately never really tilts that direction, at times it has more elements at work than needed, and it feels a bit long, though that is likely due in part to most Looney Tunes episodes averaging under 10 minutes. But any blemishes the movie has are…

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  Rear Window 1954

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Sep 2018

  It’s not the suspense in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window that makes the film so remarkable (though it certainly helps), rather it is the psychological themes at play in what is ultimately, a character driven human drama. 

  We as an audience, like Jefferies’, are confined to a single room, looking out from our limited sphere. Like Jefferies, we are not quite sure just why one of these couples sleeps outside, or what exactly the younger couples’ fight might be about, or what…

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  First Reformed 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Jun 2018

  A spiritual descendant of Taxi Driver and the works of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman, First Reformed addresses many themes. It is a story about faith and beliefs in our modern world; it is a lesson in balance, responsibility, and both the virtues and pitfalls of owning the struggles of another. It is a film about spiritual anguish and the reconciliation between our broken world and Holy ideals. It is a film about convictions. 

  The inspiration from titans of…