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Recent reviews

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  The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  A hyperactive, whole-hearted tribute to both classic Looney Tunes and traditional animation in general. There is so much care, attention and love put into this that it becomes palpable in nearly every scene. The folks who made this truly adore the medium and an era of cartoons long since passed.

  I'll say this, though, it helps to go into this knowing what it is. And by that I mean, don't expect a plethora of gags and jokes that you'd find…

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  This Hitchcock kid sure seems to know a thing or two about making movies.

  Watched the 4K disc of this and it looked *stunning*. Honestly, you could make an argument for this being one of the best looking movies ever made.

Popular reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  It's been a while since a movie I wanted to like has frustrated me so much. And to be sure there's a lot to like here. Pattinson, as expected, knocks it out of the park playing multiple clones of himself. Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo are closer to a televangelist couple than Trump stand-ins (though their cult of personality is unmistakable MAGA) but they're fun to watch. And the production itself at times feels like Bong Joon Ho doing a…

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  The Abyss 1989

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2023

  James Cameron will never make a better, more accomplished film with better performances than The Abyss. Even if he were to abandon his fanatical devotion to the Avatar films, I'm not sure he's got the desire to make something this searingly personal anymore.

  What a tremendous accomplishment this movie is. I held off watching any version of of it until I could see the special edition in a quality higher than a crappy DVD, and boy was this 4K restoration…