Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Funny Girl 1968

  Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  An American Beauty rose with an American Beauty nose

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Aesthetically perfect wish it was 3 hours. Sexier and more English than any James Bond in the last two decades.

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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  All About Eve 1950

  ★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2019 2

  Film School Drop Outs 2019- Week 7 - Composer - Alfred Newman

  As seriously as films like All About Eve take themselves, they'll always remind me of The Purple Rose of Cairo's fake movie: Laughably false, terribly shot, convoluted, overly dramatic, and totally detached from reality. An older foreigner, some British accents, and rich people are also usually featured. These are observations that lessen All About Eve by association with this genre, not because of the film itself.

  That being…