Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

  ★★½ Watched 18 Apr 2023

  It sure looks nice in HDR, but ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA isn't good at much else. The plot is not interesting for something that is supposed to set up the big bad of Marvel's Phase V. Paul Rudd does the best he can with the material, but that whole Jonathan Majors personal life hullabaloo is something that Marvel is going to need to address in the future unless they want that stink all over the rest of their upcoming films. All these superhero movies (DC and Marvel) are starting to grow really tired for me.

  I did like the "seven holes" joke, though.

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  Black Sunday 1977

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Apr 2023

  A pretty awesome action thriller directed by John Frankenheimer, who gives it his all in a film that relies on some pretty dodgy special effects at the end. The John Williams score is punchy and fun, too. It should have done better at the box office.

Popular reviews

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  Death Sentence 2007

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Jul 2013 5

  Sorry for being so blunt, but this movie is fucking amazing. It's brutal, horrifying, nauseating, unrelenting and will make your blood boil, as it was meant to. It's gratuitous violence may turn off the easily shaken, but... Wow... This is one hell of a revenge thriller based on Brian Garfield's novel. The unrated version is the one to watch.

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  Thundercrack! 1975

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 29 Oct 2015 1

  I think I've seen this film, maybe, 70 times in the past few years since working on the restoration. I have grown to appreciate the brilliance of it all, especially after getting the proper subtitle translations from the director's sister, Melinda McDowell. The film has always been notoriously difficult to hear in a theatrical environment (a by-product of the low budget nature of the sound mix and editing), and the multi-generation bootlegs sure didn't help... and with the new audio…