Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  I went in extremely skeptical, and come out of two minds about it.

  First, this film has no reason to exist. There are already several films that deal with early Dylan, from contemporary documentary Don’t Look Back, to the sideways glances of Inside Llewyn Davis, to the monumental kaleidoscope of I’m Not There, all of which grapple with the concept of “Bob Dylan” much more than the reality of Robert Zimmerman. In comparison, A Complete Unknown is pedestrian, a linear…

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  Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Jan 2025

  I’m not saying it’s the greatest film ever made, but it does feature a Gremlin orgy of gluttony and violence set to “Rhapsody in Blue” with a Busby Berkeley sequence, Christopher Lee as a mad scientist, Robert Picardo in a bad wig getting married to a gremlin, and Paul Bartel.

  So maybe it is the greatest film ever made.

Popular reviews

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  Doctor Who: The Dæmons 1971

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2022

  Doctor Who doing folk horror—gothic atmosphere, demons, ceremonial magick, a white witch, Bealtaine Eve, Morris Dancers, the Master—it’s everything I could want. One of the greatest serials of the Third Doctor, up there with The Green Death.

  
  I want to be Miss Hawthorne when I grow up.

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  Christmas Eve on Sesame Street 1978

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Dec 2021

  Oscar smashing through two walls is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.