Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Conquest of the Air 1936

  ★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2021

  1940 re-release, including footage of Ameila Earhart, the Hindenburg disaster, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the beginning of World War II.

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  The Crazies 1973

  ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Nov 2020

  Opening credits use the film's original title, 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦: 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘹𝘪𝘦.

Popular reviews

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  The Aura 2005

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Aug 2017

  Excellent film about a taxidermist with epilepsy who, through a series of circumstances, steps into a planned robbery of an armored car loaded with a casino's earnings. It's a damn shame that director Fabián Bielinsky never got to make another movie after this, his second film. Ricardo Darín gives an amazing performance in the lead role. I'm surprised that Hollywood hasn't remade this film yet, given that they did so with the previous Bielinsky-Darín collaboration NINE QUEENS (as 2004's CRIMINAL,…

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  Day of the Dead 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 04 Jul 2015

  The last film of the (first) trilogy. The acting performances left a bit to be desired (aside from those of Howard Sherman and Richard Liberty), and the characterization of the soldiers was flat - Steel in particular had potential to be more than what was ultimately shown. The plot made up for that however, showing the last vestiges of order at a hastily-assembled military laboratory (perhaps the final outpost of humanity?) collapsing under pressures both internal and external. And the effects and gore (important for a movie like this) did not disappoint.