Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Pattinson doing Billy West as Fry

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  The Lady from Shanghai 1947

  Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Hypnotic and perfect

Popular reviews

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  The Night of the Hunter 1955

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2018

  Film School Drop Outs 2018- Week 1 - Actors - Lillian Gish

  What a fantastic way to start off this challenge. The Night of the Hunter is a stupendously tense, touching, country crime thriller with a mythic tone and a visual style generations ahead of its time. The story plays like a mix of a depression era hunt for wealth and a bible story, which makes it somewhat reminiscent of O Brother, Where Art Thou. Dialogue is stylized and the…

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  Ace in the Hole 1951

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2018

  Film School Drop Outs 2018 - Week 15 - (2018) - Costume Designer - Edith Head (1940-1960)

  A perfect twisting story of manipulation and politics. The socially conscious cousin to Sunset Boulevard with a similar sense of sickening wrongness. This film is engrossing in every sense of the word. The writing can crackle with charisma while simultaneously stinging with cruel insults and ugly expressions. The camera captures its subjects thoroughly and clearly, nothing can be missed. The story of the…