Favorite films

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  The Pit and the Pendulum 1961

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Sep 2023

  Boy, Vincent Price was just perfect for these roles, wasn't he? In a medieval Italian castle, Don Medina's (Price) wife has died and his wife's brother comes from England to find out why she died. He's a very suspicious fellow and no one is giving him straight answers. Medina is an unbalanced person. He seems to worry that his wife is walking the halls of the castle. Also, it seems his father was a part of the Inquisition and has…

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  Father Brown 1954

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Sep 2023

  I've been wanting to watch an Alec Guinness Father Brown since I first read about them several years ago, but they were impossible to find in the US. Well, I just discovered Tubi has it under the name The Detective and it's going off in two days! So glad I got a chance to watch it. The books are written by G.K. Chesterton, and he is such a fun writer, taking things where you don't expect. Not the plot necessarily,…

Popular reviews

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  Blow-Up 1966

  ★½ Watched 06 Mar 2017 54

  What a waste of a great idea. If you decide to watch this, you can skip the first half-hour as all that happens is he's a photographer and something of a jerk. Finally, half-hour in he takes the photos that play in the plot. Then a bunch of nothing happens, then finally he develops the film and it's a great scene as he figures out just what he took pictures of. At 1 hour 34 minutes, we get to see The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. 1/2 star for the "blow-up" scene, and one star for The Yardbirds.

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  It's a Wonderful Life 1946

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Dec 2014 19

  How can a movie I've watched for 30 years, every year, multiple times some years, how can a movie like that still cause me to tear up at the end? I know what happens, I've seen it before. That, my friends, is quality film making.