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RobKong
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This account here for me to post my miniature film reviews. And sometimes interact with other people about moving pictures.
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Three evil magician movies and a true crime doc.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky #letterboxd #hashtag
This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are The Amazing Mr. X, Black Magic, The Mad Magician and The Thin Blue Line.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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True Crime Documentary before True Crime was really a thing.

#filmsky
#TheStudentBody
#TheSwingingCheerleaders
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A ★★★★★ review of The Thin Blue Line (1988)
It is impossible for a documentary to be objective. It doesn’t matter how Cinema Verité it is, there are still a myriad of choices that influence the presentation from where the camera is pointed, to ...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Vincent Price in another 3D horror movie where his business partner drives him to murder.

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#3DYoYo
#ATrickIsSomethingAWhoreDoesForMoney
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A ★★★★★ review of The Mad Magician (1954)
With the Vincent Price-led anaglyph 3D horror film House of Wax being a hit, Warner Brothers attempt to repeat this success the following year with The Mad Magician. Although the plot isn’t all that o...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A part perfectly suited for Orson Welles in a movie that can’t capture what could have been.

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#FrenchRevolution
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A ★★★★ review of Black Magic (1949)
Black Magic is based on one of Alexandre Dumas’ lesser-known work about a man who started his life with the name Joseph Balsamo. He apparently existed in real life but Dumas chose to write about the m...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Con artist redemption and ghost special effects!

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#MeccaLeccaHiMeccaHineyHo
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A ★★★★ review of The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
The Amazing Mr. X is about a widow who lives in a huge mansion overlooking a rear projection beach. She begins to hear her dead husband whom she never got over. She "accidentally" runs into a huckster...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A slasher set around Thanksgiving is wide open real estate and if Eli Roth had delivered, this could have been a lot of people’s tradition.

#filmsky
#WeakSauce
#Screamsgiving
#JustWatchGrindhouseAgain
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A ★★½ review of Thanksgiving (2023)
In 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez released Grindhouse to theaters. It was an anthology meant to emulate the kinds of movies that pushed the envelope in violence, gore and taste that were ...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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All your favorite romcoms owe a debt to It Happened One Night.

#filmsky
#WhatsUpDoc
#WallsofJericho
#BookAboutHitchhiking
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A ★★★★★ review of It Happened One Night (1934)
I watched Gone with the Wind recently and it made me crave a rewatch of It Happened One Night. Although there were technically romantic comedies predating this film, none of them solidified the tropes...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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A tasteless reboot, a septequel, a movie better than its pun title and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky #letterboxd #hashtag
This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which were The Toxic Avenger, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, The Sisters Brothers and It Happened One Night.
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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A lame pun title and terrible marketing kept this engaging Western from getting the audience it deserved.

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#Caustic
#ManVsNature
#ManVsMan
#ManVsSelf
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A ★★★★ review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)
I remember the trailer for The Sisters Brothers back in 2018. They chose parts of the film that appeared to be slapstick instead of simple violence and they used a cover of the song “Tainted Love.” Th...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Countdowns and Tom Cruise core strength.

#filmsky
#LastTimeMyAss
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A ★★★½ review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
The first Mission Impossible movie in 1996 was helmed by Brian de Palma and was a perfect fit for his clockwork Rube Goldberg style. It was exciting and fun and showed off Tom Cruise’s core strength w...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Juvenile, gross and funny.

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#HowAPervertRuns
#NowIfYoullExcuseMe
#TheDinkles
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A ★★★★ review of The Toxic Avenger (2023)
Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment peaked in the 80s making gross, silly, violent, juvenile movies that most people only saw through the magic of VHS. Sgt. Kabukiman, Class of Nuke ‘Em High and the...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I tried to explain to my daughter how funny the curtain rod gag on The Carol Burnett Show was and she stared at me blankly. I guess you just had to be there.

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#ShowJumpingKills
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A ★★★★ review of Gone with the Wind (1939)
The copy of Gone with the Wind on HBO Max has a TCM introduction contextualizing the inherent racism in the film and then there is an additional CYA text intro similar to the Disney+ that says it was ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Claudette Colbert precode weeper about poverty forcing her to give up her baby. But then she gets rich and everything is okay now.

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#RelatableMelodrama
#Sally
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A ★★★ review of Torch Singer (1933)
Claudette Colbert gets knocked up by a rich man who goes overseas leaving her destitute. She puts their child up for adoption and starts a career as a club singer. She becomes very famous and by accid...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Body horror about dysfunction.

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#ReciprocatingSaw
#SnortingValium
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A ★★★ review of Together (2025)
An obvious allegory for codependency where real-life couple Allison Brie and Dave Franco drink the water from a magic cave and start to meld whenever they touch. That’s about it. Together shows us the...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Great Noir.

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#SeedsBuriedDeep
#Jarvis
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A ★★★★★ review of The Bitter Stems (1956)
The Bitter Stems is an Argentine tragic Noir about a journalist unhappy with his life. He’s paid a paltry reporter’s salary and the job isn’t as exciting as he thought it would be. He’s also regrettin...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The movie in Jodorowsky’s head, and mine, with these collaborators is mind-blowing. Wish I could see it.

#filmsky
#CouldDoWithoutSomeOfTheCommenters
#ShouldaBeenAnimated
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A ★★★½ review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Jodorowsky’s Dune is a documentary about the attempt to adapt the Frank Herbert novel by a Spanish artist known for his symbolic, cult films and included a dream team of collaborators including Dan O’...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is beautiful.

#filmsky
#HandPainted
#Vibrato
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A ★★★★★ review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
America’s first feature length animated film (Germany beat us by 11 years with the paper cutout film The Adventures of Prince Achmed), Disney went all out to make a visually stunning piece of cinema. ...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Cronenberg body horror, a Wright misstep, Dowdle big ideas in too small a package and a Flanagan change of pace.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky #letterboxd #hashtag
This is a screenshot of the part of my profile showing the last four films I have seen which are Shivers, The Running Man, As Above, So Below and The Life of Chuck.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What an uplifting, life-affirming story about how nothing matters if a rando accountant kicks the bucket.

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#FlanaganAdaptingKing
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A ★★★½ review of The Life of Chuck (2024)
Mike Flanagan who is famous for his horror movies adapts a story from Stephen King who is famous for his horror novels but it isn't horror. The Life of Chuck is a film broken down into three parts cou...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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As Opportunity, So Wasted

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#EditedFoundFootage
#DantesPOV
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A ★★★ review of As Above, So Below (2014)
Part The Sentinel (1977), part The Beyond (1981), part Flatliners (1990), part The Descent (2005) and with a little Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) tossed in, As Above, So Below is a lot of ...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This Edgar Wright movie isn’t Edgar Wrighty enough.

#filmsky
#FurrowedBrow
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A ★★★ review of The Running Man (2025)
The Running Man seemed to be a great fit for the Edgar Wright treatment. A movie about a man competing for his life in a violent nationwide gameshow has all kinds of opportunities for him to bring his...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Attack of the Skinny 70s Canadian Raping Sex Zombies

#filmsky
#Cronenberg
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A ★★★½ review of Shivers (1975)
Shivers is early Cronenberg where the body horror, provocative subject matter and shocking scenarios are all present but the pacing, direction, acting and story are amateurish. The premise is of a doc...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I don’t like Eddington but I respect how easily it triggered me.

#filmsky
#MaskUp
#CoenBrothersLight
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A ★★★★ review of Eddington (2025)
Eddington begins with Joaquin Phoenix as a sheriff sitting alone in his parked vehicle eating a sandwich. Up pulls two cops from the neighboring Native American reservation demanding he mask up. We ar...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The subject is hard to watch but the cinematography is gorgeous.

#filmsky
#35mm
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A ★★★★★ review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)
The word “painterly” is the best descriptor for the visuals in 12 Years a Slave. The muted earth tones in both the costuming and the grading of the film easily draws to mind brushstrokes. Although by ...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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My Muh-three-gan Muh-two-gan review-gan.

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#ComeWithMeIfYouWant2-gan
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A ★★½ review of M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
M3GAN was a sort of Chuckie movie with A.I. instead of the soul of a mass murderer. That’s a solid premise for a pop horror flick. The doll that took its mission to protect its child too far did a cre...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM