Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Rain Killer 1990

  ★★ Watched 23 Aug 2023

  Violent and full of gratuitous nudity The Rain Killer resembles a Brian De Palma slasher mystery in the very beginning but soon transforms into something about as exciting as a cheaply produced daytime soap.

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  Prime Target 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Aug 2023

  Prime Target is a solid police drama set in New York City where a detective played by Angie Dickinson investigates the deaths of several female police officers. A product of its time it's got a distinct 1980s style, complete with period interiors, as well as typical hairdos, outfits and saxophone music. The acting by some of the supporting actors is a little bit exaggerated in places and there's the occasional moment of unintentional silliness, but other than that it's hard to find anything to complain about.

Popular reviews

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  The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Jan 2013 4

  Wes Anderson's films are known primarily as Wes Anderson films, which is not very surprising seeing as he has developed his very own style, consisting of symmetrical colorful photography/art direction infused with sweet sounding pop songs, a combination that it takes mere seconds to recognize as distinctly andersonsonian. When looking back it's clear though that it was Anderson and Owen Wilson as a pair that had something really special going in the late 90s and early 00s. It was their…

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  Class 1983

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Sep 2013

  Merging 70s drama with more light-hearted elements that would later come to dominate much of the 80s teen output, Class feels like a progressive movie for its time, with one steady foot in the past while the other breaks new ground -- a The Graduate tweaked to fit better with the times and the assumed different demands of a changing audience. It must have been a rather special experience for a person who had grown up watching movies during the…