Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Charlie Chan's Secret 1936

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  I’m a sucker for 70-minute 1930s detective movies, and I’m a sucker for haunted house murder mysteries, so this was catnip for me.

  Bonus: there’s actually a whitey playing the dopey butler, which would seem progressive if it were nearly any other damn franchise.

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  Charlie Chan at the Circus 1936

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Circuses, trains, guys in gorilla suits, guys in drag, this one’s a fuckin’ hoot.

Popular reviews

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  Dirty Work 1998

  ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Sep 2021

  “I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. So that, to me, is not a loss. That’s a draw.”

  RIP Norm

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Nov 2023

  I went into this being heavily burned out on movies. Cinema is my favorite hobby by far, so burnout is an awful feeling.

  I have no idea what prompted me to watch this, because I’m not a Tom Cruise fan. I was born too late to have any sort of appreciation for the original Top Gun in its time, and I didn’t even bother to watch it until last summer. I’m not overly fond of it, but I appreciate it as…