Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  Don’t take the ring, Laura.

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  Like 2016

  ★★★ Watched 09 Oct 2024 8

  Garrett Bradley’s bite-sized click farm exposé amounts to more or less a trifle, but at least I feel somewhat better about the lack of engagement on my Instagram posts.

Popular reviews

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  Nashville 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jul 2020 66

  "This isn't Dallas!"

  What ended up becoming my favorite film began life in its amoeba form as Greatest Showman-style pap intended as a vehicle for Welsh crooner Tom Jones. This is what United Artists had in mind when they approached Robert Altman to direct the project (then titled The Great Southern Amusement Company) in 1972. Altman had no interest in the script or in country music and had never visited Nashville, but he agreed to make a different film about…

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  Dog Day Afternoon 1975

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 29 Sep 2020 11

  "See I'm with a guy who don't know where Wyoming is. You think you got problems?"

  On the 22nd of August in 1972, John Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturile and (briefly) Robert Westenberg strove to rob a Chase Manhattan bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Antsy from the onset, Westenberg fled the holdup in its initial stage after seeing a police car drive by. While Wojtowicz had some background working as a teller and Naturile (though barely an adult) was a repeat criminal…