Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Funny People 2009

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 May 2023

  As a father, I can very much relate to Apatow thinking anyone who isn't moved to tears by his daughter's Cats performance is a sociopath.

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  Dracula’s Fiancée 2002

  ★★★ Watched 15 May 2023

  I find it very heartening that Rollin got a film made at the turn of the century that even got a theatrical release. Especially since I still find it somewhat hard to believe that he could even make films post-1990 with a budget. And I'm glad that he was able to do everything the way he wanted. That he was able to put almost anything in his pulp mystique treasure hunt again: Vampires in watch boxes; the beach at Dieppe…

Popular reviews

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  Have Sword, Will Travel 1969

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Mar 2020 4

  1. Hardly any word is touching the main subject of BAO BIAO. If the eyes in this movie of gazes would be blackened one would maybe miss that this is a love story.
  2. The first ten minutes exhibit the oblique leaving of a magic realm. Omnipresent flowers disappear without explication. Romanticism ends, fighting and mistrust begin. The last ten minutes celebrate one heroically tragic death. The art of dying as opera without singing. In-between: waiting, trying out limits, looking, living with intricacy.

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  Ad Astra 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Sep 2019

  After a symbolic second birth we see Brad Pitt sucking for food on a nipple fitted on the wall of his spacecraft ... and AD ASTRA acts as if nothing strange is happening. 'nuff said. Masterpiece.