Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Patterson–Gimlin film 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  ummmmmmm… sir?

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  Sherlock Jr. 1924

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Clever, nodding if it were movie. Just makes you smile! High stakes (what if I drown) high stakes (what if I don’t give her a necklace). That Buster sure is a character!

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  “Do you think I look older?”
  “We are older.”

  An INCREDIBLY heavy start to movie-watching in 2025, but the kind of film I try to see more of, whether I’m really ready to handle it (who could be?) or not. The type of beautiful filmmaking of increasing ugliness that grabs your heart in its claws. Happy New Year.

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2025 1

  I honestly cannot rate this fairly because we walked out of the theatre once he brought that electric guitar on stage. Absolutely disgusting.

  
  
  

  Kidding! But really, when Bob Dylan first showed up in New York I thought “hoo boy - here comes Trouble¹!”

  ¹ Trouble, track #9 from Shot of Love (1981)

  Okay okay - I loved this! Wanted it to keep going into the 70s and 80s and 90s and 00s and 10s and 20s… really impactful performances and…