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  Page Miss Glory 1936

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This has certainly got to be one of the most beautiful cartoon shorts I've ever seen, steeped in an angular Art Deco style that I love. Apparently, this was only the third short directed by the genius Tex Avery, and while it's short on the non-stop gags and dark humor that he would become known for, it more than makes up for it with its vibrant, eye-catching visuals, graceful fluidity of movement and abundance of charm. This is perhaps the first cartoon short I've seen thus far that makes me want to live in the universe it creates, which is no small feat.

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  Swooner Crooner 1944

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  The "OH, FRANKIE!" one.

  Another classic Looney Tunes short that I probably haven't seen in decades. This is notable for many reasons, first and foremost being just how downright horny it is, especially for 1944. To my mind, there's also an impressive level of implied cynicism on display here, which is something that I think runs through a lot of these old Looney Tunes cartoons and really makes them stand up over time.

  I'd completely forgotten that Porky Pig makes…

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  Night of the Living Dead 1968

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Feb 2018 4

  REPORTER: Are they slow moving, chief?
  POLICE CHIEF: Yeah, they're dead. They're...all messed up.

  
  Viewed -- finally! -- on the brand new and long awaited Criterion blu-ray with a 4K transfer from the original film negative. Needless to say, NOTLD looks and even sounds better than ever. And after 50 years of public domain hell, it even has a proper copyright now.

  Sure, the film is probably not absolutely 100% flawless, but in terms of independent films (particularly of the…

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  Ed Wood 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 May 2017 3

  Ed Wood is a film that gets better and better every time I watch it...and I pretty much loved it from the first time I saw it. I came to it a few years late, as I was busy being obsessed with a little Quentin Tarantino film back in 1994, but was happy when I finally did. While it's my second favorite Tim Burton film (Pee-wee will forever be my #1), you could make a strong case that it is…