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  A Man Escaped 1956

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2023 7

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

  Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, which literally translates as: "A man condemned to death has escaped or The wind blows where it wants" the alternate title’s obvious quotation of John 3:9 notwithstanding, this title evokes the Christian message straightaway with first our Man being Jesus who was unjustly sentenced to death, was buried, and on the third day escaped through resurrection. The man also being every man whose condemnation is just and…

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  Stalker 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2022 14

  There's an episode of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert (It's at around 20 minutes in if you want to avoid Dax's drivel) where he's speaking with Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio and Hawke says, "I think that Richard Linklater, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac are responsible for inspiring more bad art...because you read Bukowski you think, 'I fart! I could write a great poem.' You read Kerouac and you think 'Oh I could write a novel about my friends, that'll be awesome!'…

Recent reviews

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  Charlie Wilson's War 2007

  ★★★ Watched 29 May 2023

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

  Definitely one of the weaker Sorkin scripts and I wonder some of that wasn’t on Nichols not quite appreciating the surreality of his style. Sorkin writes the conversations of the gods as they hover translucently over the affairs of men. Here they’re on the same dimension.

  Still, this movie appreciates hardly at all the inner machinations of what it might have meant to covertly take the defense fund of a desert nation from five million to one billion in the…

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  Rebecca 1940

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 May 2023 4

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

  I must have “seen” Rebecca a thousand times without ever having seen it. Always arriving with orchestral blare on TCM with a sheen of Robert Osborne’s drool still glimmering over the cursive credits before I was whisked off to wherever pre-teen Mitch was whisked off too (it wasn’t ball practice I can tell you that much!) In that way the movie is not for me unlike the spectral protagonist which invisibly haunts the story. Always threatening my status as a…

Popular reviews

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  Bottle Rocket 1996

  ★★★½ Watched 01 May 2023 8

  “They’ll never catch me…’cause I’m fucking innocent.”

  I watched the short film right after as well as the “making of” documentary and man it’s hard not to like a film this amateur, this promising, and this in love with itself. Roommates Wes and Owen and Owen’s brothers strong arming this film to life with a few charmed and flustered producers is the story I’m here for. Funny too that it pretty much seemed obvious that more conventionally offbeat handsome Luke…

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  You People 2023

  ★½ Watched 24 May 2023 2

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

  This was a fascinating two hours. Director Kenya Barris toys with a remix of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, but after such a bumpy offering one would think he would be highly reticent—actually you’d think anyone for any reason would be rightly reluctant—to remake The Wizard of Oz as it seems he’s been slated by Warner Brothers to do. 

  I wanted to say that I was not this movie’s target audience, but I’m struggling to discern who the target is.…