Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Spy Game 2001

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2023

  Robert Redford is so effin’ cool

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  Rocky IV 1985

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Nov 2023 1

  The best Rocky soundtrack?

Popular reviews

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  Super 8 2011

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2011

  This movie ranks among some of the greatest kid gang movies of all time: Goonies, Sandlot, Stand By Me, etc.

  The paranormal MacGuffin is really well done, but the feel-good storyline driven by smart ass kids who know how to save the day is what’ll make me want to see this again.

  Super 8 is pretty much all I want a movie to be… Fun to watch.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2021

  I love the book(s) and I love what Denis Villeneuve and team have accomplished—couldn’t ask for more. Thoughts after first viewing:

  * how’d they establish the politics, environment, culture, and sci-if terminology so smoothly!?
  * that spaceship is the coolest I have ever seen
  * oh no that one! is it made of concrete!? stone?!
  * mmmmm architecture and texture and light
  * look at all these massive doors!
  * look at all these massive doors on spaceships!
  * that…