Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Drowning Mona 2000

  Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  Amazed how much I remembered from the one time I watched it back in 2001 with my mom and sister (rented from Hollywood Video!).

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  Erin Brockovich 2000

  Watched 25 Mar 2025

  "That's all you got: two wrong feet and ugly fucking shoes," that's poetry. Wow!

Popular reviews

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  Singin' in the Rain 1952

  Rewatched 02 Jun 2024 2

  One is tempted to say, “They don’t make movies like this anymore,” but they didn’t really then, either. For all its use of already-established songs, tweak of the An American In Paris fantasy sequence, familiar plot line, and winks to stars and iconography of an earlier era, the alchemy HERE is one of a kind.

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  Li'l Abner 1959

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 May 2018

  Film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of the Al Capp comic strip. Never read the comic, but holy hell is this film a trip, a biting critique of capitalism, Confederate mythologizing, nuclear war, government values, tradition, and the overall American way of life. Colorful sets and costumes, bouncy musical numbers, playing-to-the-balcony performances make the disdain for its characters all the more surreal. There's black magic, beefcake, and a character named Appassionata Von Climax. Get through the opening number, for insane riches await.

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