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Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Gummo
  • The Apartment
  • Re-Animator

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  • Catering Christmas

    ★½

  • The Face of Fu Manchu

    ★★½

  • Godzilla Minus One

    ★★★½

  • The Son of the Stars

    ★★★½

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  • Catering Christmas

    Catering Christmas

    ★½

    Male lead offers nothing for the chemistry central to the film but features enough baffling moments that come out of nowhere (the aunt/butler proposal, where did that come from?) to keep me semi-engaged while I played Civ.

  • The Face of Fu Manchu

    The Face of Fu Manchu

    ★★½

    Not enough Fu Manchu. Dated in several quite obvious ways, but functional enough as a silly, police thriller. Amazing final explosion.

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  • Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

    Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

    ½

    Gee whiz was this awful. Don't see it!! 

    *This review was paid for by Clinton Administration

  • Death of a Nation

    Death of a Nation

    ½

    My boy Dinesh is back with another doozy.

    Hitler suicide opening scene

    Dinesh in a knit sweater

    Excessive historical B-Roll usage 

    Excessive CGI insertations into B-roll

    Dinesh’s continuous transformation into a toad

    Multiple long shots of Dinesh’s back at various historical landmarks that then slowly transitions into him standing in an old photo of that location

    At least ten minute sequence of news footage and clips of celebrities saying Trump would never be president leading up to the election. This…