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Thanksgiving 2026: All Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade attendees must be in a full suit.

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A ★★★★ review of Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
All I could think of while watching this movie is that, after trying to normalize dressing up for flights, I fear the current administration is next going to turn its attention to being more professio...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Honestly one of the better new release action films I've seen this year.
A ★★★★ review of The Running Man (2025)
In a week where I watched all six Homes Alone, I did not expect The Running Man to come in have one of the top three booby trap scenes I'll watch all week. Also, I guess it's cool to hate on Glen Powe...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Shockingly, a sequel with no ties to the original was not good? I am so surprised.

Also, this is somehow an unintended sequel to The Fugitive?

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A ★★ review of Home Alone 3 (1997)
Okay, so the positives? The traps are pretty elaborate and fun to watch executed. Everything else is just a poor reflection of the original two Home Alones. Macauly Culkin was truly a stand out child ...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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In which the most unbelievable thing to me is that in a house with 15 people, not one of them woke up before 8 AM...
A ★★★★ review of Home Alone (1990)
I love this movie but of all the things that are truly unbelievable (and there are many) the one thing that stood out to me on this watch is that there were 15 people in that house, including multiple...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A back-to-back Ethan Hawke viewing with a head snapping tonal shift:

Black Phone 2:
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Blue Moon:
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Somehow both were great in their own ways.
A ★★★★½ review of Blue Moon (2025)
I feel like for whatever reason this won't garner the attention of other films during award season but man did Ethan Hawke carry himself so perfectly through this movie. Balancing all of the humor and...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Starting spoopy season early...

My ★★★ review of Friday the 13th on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/bdjcz1
A ★★★ review of Friday the 13th (1980)
I think this movie suffers from creating so many of the tropes that are leveraged in slasher film history. It interesting because it did feel like the kills were just so quick after one another. All t...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The most appropriate way to start Fall 2025:

My ★★★★★ review of When Harry Met Sally... on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/b95eSb
A ★★★★★ review of When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
It's the first day of fall 2025 and for whatever reason this movie is the quintessential fall themed movie for me so it felt appropriate to rewatch it. There is so much to love about this movie: - The...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I could barely watch this movie straight on from the amount of awkwardness I felt - that's what it was trying to accomplish right?

My ★★★½ review of Friendship on Letterboxd boxd.it/b2UfiR
A ★★★½ review of Friendship (2024)
I do not think anyone but Tim Robinson could have played Craig. He is somehow able to throw himself fully and completely into these awkward/cringe characters so impeccably well. Also Paul Rudd is Paul...
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September 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Road to watching all Best Pictures continues:

My ★★★★ review of Mutiny on the Bounty on Letterboxd boxd.it/b2p4bD
A ★★★★ review of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Another solid Best Picture Winner. Clark Gable was fantastic as was Charles Laughton although his Bligh was almost a cartoon level villain. I think the thing that impressed me the most was their abili...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Now that is a movie worthy of the Best Picture Oscar!

My ★★★★½ review of It Happened One Night on Letterboxd boxd.it/b1RBYv
A ★★★★½ review of It Happened One Night (1934)
Just some stray thoughts: - Having only seen him in Gone With the Wind, I never understood why people found Clark Gable so charming. Now I get it. - I could not imagine a worse hell than being stuck o...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Working my way thru the Best Picture Winners is way more of a slog than I had anticipated...

My ★★ review of The Broadway Melody on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/aXqhCp
A ★★ review of The Broadway Melody (1929)
This won best picture? Honestly, the most enjoyable part of this entire movie was the Roman Centurion and Lighting Guy bitching to one another. The music was mediocre at best and story was just meh.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My ★★ review of Wings on Letterboxd boxd.it/aWP8CV

100 Years ago this was probably the shit. Now, it just felt like a slog to watch.
A ★★ review of Wings (1927)
Look, I am sure this was fantastic in 1927 but this did not hold for me - it felt way too long, the story was drawn out and honestly, being a mostly silent movie just made it feel interminable.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My ★★★ review of Aladdin on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/aH1dbl

10 movies left on the 100 Top Box Office movies...
A ★★★ review of Aladdin (2019)
"Nostalgia is a toxic impulse" - John Hodgman Comparing this to the original is a fool's errand. When you think of all of Robin William's truly iconic roles (and man, there are just so many of them), ...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It's not LOTR but The Hobbit got progressively better with each film. I wonder what my son will think with no nostalgia

@letterboxd.social Reviews:

An Unexpected Journey: ★★★
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The Desolation of Smaug: ★★★½
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The Battle of the Five Armies: ★★★½
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A ★★★ review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
It was better than I remembered and Jackson's sweeping panning shots over the New Zealand countryside were fantastic. But, how do you take a couple hundred page book and make it into 9 hours of movies...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Phew. 10 Days | 11 Hayao Miyazaki Films

All of these movies were absolutely stunning to watch and I am amazed / ashamed it took me this long to finally sit down and enjoy them.

Here are my @letterboxd.social thoughts on all of them:
July 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My ★★★★½ review of Kiki's Delivery Service on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/asnJIb

Halfway done my Miyazaki binge /first time watch...
A ★★★★½ review of Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Another delightful movie and one that I feel okay showing to my 5 year old.
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July 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My ★★★★½ review of Porco Rosso on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/aqQExH

Hot Take: I kinda liked this more than Spirited Away...
A ★★★★½ review of Porco Rosso (1992)
Well damn. I kinda liked this more than Spirited Away? I mean "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist" may be the better (and universally applicable) lines ever coming from a movie. But Marco/Porco was a ...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Filling in with what may be my biggest movie blind spot: the films of Hayao Miyazaki and starting with what may be the best one.

My ★★★★½ review of Spirited Away on Letterboxd boxd.it/aq4rhF
A ★★★★½ review of Spirited Away (2001)
This was just delightful and such fun to watch. I have never seen a Miyazaki film before (I know huge gap in my movie watching history) but with how good this was, I think I will now just be watching ...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My ★★★½ review of The Fate of the Furious on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/akFY3B

It's dumb but I enjoyed it.
A ★★★½ review of The Fate of the Furious (2017)
I don't know why but I kind of really enjoyed this one for some dumb reasons: - The Haka at the soccer match - Jason Statham's baby fight on the plane - Bringing Dame Helen Mirren into the fold - Thro...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My ★★★ review of Fast & Furious 6 on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/ajco63

...6 Down, 5 To Go...
A ★★★ review of Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Right in the Fast/Furious sweet spot of humor and action and non-sensical storylines. Honestly I kinda looking forward to amped up levels of insanity in the forth coming movies.
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July 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM