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  The 39 Steps 1935

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  easy to get JAZZED when you see the camera start moving closer and closer to something and you know Hitchcock has something to show you. that tricky fella. chases on rocky, foggy highlands, trying to clear your name and avoid arrest, a memory man in danger for knowing too much. a very fun thriller in its nascent form. some unbelievable stuff- an assassin startled by a shadow, evocative shots of doorways, close ups on a missing finger. Hitchcock guarantees his wrong man spy thriller is anything but plain

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  The Matrix Revolutions 2003

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Not the Matrix for me. Found the very big middle of the film battle to be overlong, overstimulating, and mostly visually unpleasant to watch, and do find that, even with two films worth of time with them, the characters who aren’t from the original film are not that interesting to me unless they are, weirdly, computer program characters. Like Seraph! Give me Seraph! I do like the operatic Smith Neo final battle, the weird metaphysical conclusion, the fatalistic romance, but……

Popular reviews

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

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I am glad to see Looney Tunes going nuts in a theater, and with pretty lovely animation that is willing to break format in fun ways, and there are a few really fun gags but I think I am primarily ambivalent because, you know, while this is fun and cute, original Looney Tunes is where like the best jokes ever originated and were perfected so it’s a lofty comparison point

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Apr 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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