Favorite films

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  Argylle 2024

  Watched 19 Feb 2025

  I wanted to find this clever. I wanted to find this fun. Nope.

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  Bringing Up Baby 1938

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Dec 2024

  Screwball comedy; Hepburn and Grant; a leopard; quick witted dialogue: I can’t give you anything but love, Baby.

Popular reviews

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  Bell, Book and Candle 1958

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2024

  A movie I could live in. Kim Novak stars as an antiques shopgirl bewitching Jimmy Stewart (filmed the same year as Vertigo). Incredible beatnik club scene.

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  Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Dec 2024

  I love a decent factoid, and this was full of them. Artists were named; songs were played; examples were given. No detail went unexplained. To me, that’s a serious win. My ambivalence about Steeley Dan shifted. Only a fool could say that? Maybe.

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