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

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December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
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
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.

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#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
A tasteless reboot, a septequel, a movie better than its pun title and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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
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
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
The movie in Jodorowsky’s head, and mine, with these collaborators is mind-blowing. Wish I could see it.

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#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
Cronenberg body horror, a Wright misstep, Dowdle big ideas in too small a package and a Flanagan change of pace.

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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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
The subject is hard to watch but the cinematography is gorgeous.

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#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