Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Night Train to Munich 1940

  ★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Big fan of The Lady Vanishes so I had to check out that other train movie starring Margaret Lockwood. Many peculiar similarities here, most notably the return of the two cricket-loving chaps. Also there’s the landscape miniatures, as seen in the likewise familiar sweeping opening shot—although this one takes us to Hitler’s mountain cabin, yikes! A plot of hidden identities unfolds and about an hour later we’re finally aboard the titular night train.

  Unfortunately we’ve learned by then that Rex…

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  The Lady Vanishes 1938

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Still the OG train mystery as far as I’m concerned. Set in a souvenir snow globe of an imaginary European country this early Hitchcock is one of the most charming and hilariously British things I’ve ever seen. Margaret Lockwood is such a cutie!

Popular reviews

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  Bitter Moon 1992

  ★★★½ Rewatched 28 Jun 2019

  Loving these Hugh Grant romcoms.

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  So Is This 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jul 2020

  Stellar performance by Helvetica.