Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Rocketman 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Such a good feel-good movie to me.

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  Freud's Last Session 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 17 Feb 2025

  Given that, with a premise like this, there’s basically no way this could actually be a good film, I think it’s surprisingly not terrible. A number of the reviews here seem to say the opposite though; people are disappointed and thought that it should have been great—how? It’s an imagined Socratic dialogue about the existence of God and the worthiness of Christian values between two historical figures who would in all likelihood never have engaged each other in this way. …

Popular reviews

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  What's New Pussycat? 1965

  ★★½ Watched 19 Nov 2024 2

  The shit you watch when you get stuck on an actor. To be fair, I did laugh a few times. And honestly I appreciated that the women in this were all bizarre individuals (not sexy props), just like the men. Bizarre, horny people causing chaos, all of them. The go-karts looked like fun. And I enjoyed the brief Richard Burton cameo. And the Peter O’Toole strip tease on the dance floor.

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  Lord Jim 1965

  ★★ Watched 02 Apr 2024

  Peter O’Toole does a very elegant and very accidental-looking belly-flop off a boat about halfway through and for some reason, that’s the take they went with.

  Anyway, was it just me or did almost nothing in this make sense? And wasn’t almost everyone miscast? I enjoyed the first hour or so. It got more ambitious as it went on, but never seemed to live up to its potential. It’s hard to put my finger on why, but I think a…

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