Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Apr 2003 1

  Why isn't this on blu-ray?

Recent reviews

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  Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938

  ★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  The villain has a ferocious lion as a pet. In a movie like this, it can only mean …

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  Chino 1973

  ★★½ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth 1970

  ★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2017 4

  Movie rating: 2.5 stars. Stop motion rating: 5 stars. How do you weigh that into a combined rating? Well, I guess it depends on how much you like stop motion. So my 4 star rating tells you a little about how I feel about that, I guess.

  The best special effects are those that do not draw attention to themselves. That's true for special effects in general, and it's true for stop motion as well. And that's why most people…

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  Frankenstein's Daughter 1958

  ★★½ Rewatched 07 May 2014

  The first time I saw this film was in London in 1964. At the Classic Cinema in Brixton, to be precise. I thought it was the worst film I had ever seen. And quite possibly it was, at the time. Fifty years later, a lot of really crappy movies have flickered before my eyes, and my opinion of this movie is a little more mellow now. It's still a crappy movie, though, but a bit of a guilty pleasure by…