Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Hunger Games 2012

  ★★★½ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  Katniss wore low-rise cargo pants into her first arena and nobody’s talking about it.

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  The Mighty Celt 2005

  ★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2025 2

  “We need a happy ending, son. All the stories can’t be bad ones.”

  Wow, so therapy is actually just Robert Carlyle showing up to be your dad.

Popular reviews

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  Spite Marriage 1929

  ★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2021 4

  In Spite Marriage, Buster Keaton

  1. Attends a play the girl he loves is in at least 35 times
  2. Is hesitant to kiss her even though he infiltrated her play just for that reason
  3. Answers "Yes, Ma'am" when she asks "Will you marry me?"
  4. Puts her to bed AND chastely kisses her goodnight after she gets drunk and makes a public scene
  5. Buys her a stuffed animal the next morning
  6. Punches her ex-boyfriend for badmouthing…

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  Cleopatra 1934

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2022 8

  If you do not simply pass away when the title card for this film appears on screen, then you might as well find something else to watch. Cleopatra isn't the film for you.

  Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra is scene after scene of awesome extravagance--hedonistic, passionate, and deadly. If the script isn't quite up to the task of telling an epic story about empires, everything else certainly is. Even in the slightly slower first half, you will never once be at…