Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose 2023

  ★★★ Watched 13 Nov 2023

  Simon Pegg channeling Christoph Waltz for an entire movie is certainly something.

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  Scarygirl 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2023

  If Tim Burton was Australian, and loved bright colors and sunshine.

Popular reviews

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  From Up on Poppy Hill 2011

  ★★★★ Rewatched 13 May 2012 13

  The world was very unkind to Goro Miyazaki when he took the unexpected leap from landscape architect and museum manager to director in 2006. Tales from Earthsea had its fair share of weaknesses and outright faults, but the yardstick by which the younger Miyazaki was measured and found lacking was downright unfair and cruel. The recent documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi contains a musing from a food critic that's strikingly relevant: 86 year old Jiro is still in charge of…

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  The Innocents 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jul 2021 1

  Young Scanners.

  I don't think I've ever been so relieved to see the "No animals were hurt during the making of this movie" disclaimer before.