Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Husbands 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2023

  Some thoughts via the Bijou Blog.

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  The Fury 1978

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2023

  Come for sinister John Cassavetes, stay for 62 year old Kirk Douglas doing stunts in his underwear. 

  De Palma gets strong work from Douglas, whose wild performance oscillates between manic and sensitive. While watching, I kept thinking how this would make an interesting double bill with Scanners. Beyond the obvious kinship they share as telepathy-themed paranoid thrillers there’s key differences in the aesthetics both filmmakers employ— De Palma’s lively formalism vs. Cronenberg’s cold distance.

Popular reviews

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  Snoopy, Come Home 1972

  Watched 10 Apr 2020

  The most emo peanuts movie, and peanuts is already emo as hell to begin with.

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  Army of Darkness 1992

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Mar 2022

  This movie has Three Stooges style slapstick gags AND heaps of practical effects and stop motion skeletons. What more could you want? That’s cinema, baby.