Fei Hou

Fei Hou

I like classic movies, horror films, and thrillers.

Favorite films

  • Vertigo
  • Citizen Kane
  • Casablanca
  • In a Lonely Place

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  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • The Stranger and the Fog

  • Almost Famous

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Casablanca

    Casablanca

    ★★★★★

    I haven't seen this in over a year and it may be a while when I feel up to seeing it again (for personal reasons)...

    But....I will always fondly think of this masterpiece every Valentine's day, for it is the greatest of its genre, but also thinking of it within the context of the current political climate, it's a "love story" yes but also a prime example of an anti-romance that frames its central protagonist's cynicism and selfishness against a…

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  • Before Sunset

    Before Sunset

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success

    ★★★★★

    Saw this on the big screen at Charles Theatre

    Probably aged well better than any Noir out there, and it is in modern days, timelier than ever. New York has never felt shadier (both in its exterior neon cityscape and the smoky, jazzy bars that our unsavory characters frequent) and more congested than as the backdrop of this film, where Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster shed any semblance of their "nice guy" personas and relish in delivering Clifford Odets' aggressively venomous, acid-laden dialogue.

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