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Favorite films

  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • The Godfather

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  • The Descendants

    ★★★½

  • Maestro

    ★★

  • Poor Things

  • American Fiction

    ★★★

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  • Cowboys & Aliens

    Cowboys & Aliens

    ★★★

    Some people can seemingly watch anything on an airplane, presumably for them any distraction is welcome. For me, I need something big and loud and faster paced that I don’t have to think about very much, and this fit that bill to a T. Essentially, it’s Daniel Craig as an outlaw doing James Bond in the old west, with aliens, and Harrison Ford being his trademarked, more-than-grumpy character. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but who the hell expected…

  • Sea of Love

    Sea of Love

    ★★★

    Somehow this was better than I remembered it being, not that it is actually that good but it is entertaining. I have experienced a renewed appreciation for Al Pacino in recent years, he’s a pretty charismatic actor and he does this sort of on-the-edge stuff very well. I have liked John Goodman since I first saw him in Raising Arizona and it’s fun to see him in an early, more meaty, role and I enjoy Ellen Barkin and her less-than-classic,…

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  • Life Is Beautiful

    Life Is Beautiful

    ½

    A truly horrible film; utterly false and cynical. I have a fairly low threshold for whimsy to begin with and to see it used in the context of industrialized mass murder is appalling. It may be possible to make a good comedy about the Final Solution but I don't know how you would do it, and neither did Benigni.

  • Kingsman: The Secret Service

    Kingsman: The Secret Service

    ★½

    What a triumph, combine the pointlessness of the standard, comic book, world-in-the-balance nonsense with a smirking, self-satisfied "satire" of the Bond movies and the id of a not particularly bright 14 year old boy. Colin Firth looks embarrassed to be doing what he is doing, as well he should. Samuel L. Jackson hits the same note he has hit for the past 20 years, only this time with a lisp. Why? I guess 14 year old boys think lisps are…

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