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  • The X from Outer Space, 1967 - ★★
    B-movie at its best (worst?). Kaiju movies are always campy, but this one elevates beyond that. With nonsensical asides like the random UFO that isn't touched on and is completely unrelated to the monster, and a love triangle arc that serves as the crux of the final scenes but is barely touched on otherwise, this […]
  • Mary Poppins, 1964 - ★★★★½
    I don't think I would have bet that *this* would be the movie Poppy would ask for over and over, but here we are. And, I am not complaining. ❤️
  • The Bride!, 2026 - ★★½ (contains spoilers)
    This review may contain spoilers. Watched at Starlight Drive-In.I really like Keith Phipps wrapup on The Reveal's review of The Bride -"The Bride! is seldom cohesive (and occasionally incoherent) but it’s also rarely boring"I think that about sums up my takeaway from the film. Visually stunning from beginning to end, but so very confusing. I […]
  • F1, 2025 - ★★★½
    Last Summer there was a fascinating interview with Joseph Kosinski on The Big Picture podcast. A major focus of the interview was on Kosinki’s cameras and camera work. As with many in Hollywood, Kosinski has been focused of late on practical effects over CGI (ironic since he started off in computer graphics). That meant for […]
  • The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★★
    I’m loving Wes Anderson’s recent run of movies and shorts. I’m later to the Anderson train than most, picking up somewhere around Fantastic Mr Fox or Grand Budapest. I still haven’t gone back and caught all the earlier films, though I watched both versions of Bottle Rocket recently so I’m on the way. And while […]

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