Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Tell Your Children 1936

  ★★ Watched 10 Feb 2016 1

  Can't quite remember my first exspierance smoking marijuana with friends being quite as exaggerated or black and white as this.

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  Too Many Cooks 2014

  ★★★★½ Added

  I've been under the assumption I've seen some strange shit but this just takes all that and blows it out the fucking water.

Popular reviews

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★★★ Added 4

  Spirited Away is likely the very best from Miyazaki, from this stupendous film you can tell he is a master storyteller. A hallmark of a good storyteller is making the audience empathise or pull them into the shoes of the central character. Miyazaki does this brilliantly in Spirited Away. During the first fifteen minutes we have no idea what is going on. Neither does the main character Chihiro. We discover the world as Chihiro does and it's truly amazing to…

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  Goodbye Uncle Tom 1971

  ★★★ Rewatched 21 Nov 2014 4

  Every American should see this?

  Not exactly a "humanitarian masterpiece" as someone else said (yeah right!). More like cryptic super-exploitation. This is wildly, hilariously, rollickingly misguided pseudo-history at best. Outright race-baiting at worst. Made by the sleazoids who barfed up "Africa Addios" (giving Africans their own country back so soon just wasn't the right idea, was it!!), a film that featured the genuinely bizarre white South African girls on trampolines montage. A fervent call-to-arms for African-Americans made by white Europeans…