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Movie Reviews by Siskoid
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Movie reviews straight off my Letterboxd account. Hope this draws you to some cool ones!
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My ★★★ review of Capricorn One (1977)
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A ★★★ review of Capricorn One (1977)
Anyone who knows me knows I can't stand the conspiracy theory about the faked moon landing. Set 5 minutes into the future, the astronaut thriller Capricorn One doesn't believe that either, but it arra...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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My ★★★½ review of The Blue Gardenia (1953)
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A ★★★½ review of The Blue Gardenia (1953)
There's just something I like about Anne Baxter, and she's so good at light comedy that I can't believe her career didn't necessarily skew that way. Her presence in The Blue Gardenia (and that of her ...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Capricious Summer (1968)
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A ★★★½ review of Capricious Summer (1968)
Not gonna lie, after about 15 minutes I rewound Capricious Summer and started it again, having failed to get a handle on it. Some movies are like that and though I think maybe I'd have to have been ra...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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My ★★★★ review of .TV (2017)
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A ★★★★ review of .TV (2017)
An elliptical short made in editing, .TV centers on Tuvalu, whose main export is their national web extension, a tiny country being eaten away by rising waters. Made entirely of footage found on YouTu...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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My ★★½ review of 37°4 S (2013)
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A ★★½ review of 37°4 S (2013)
A love story set on a remove, isolated island in the South Atlantic, 37°4 S is all narration and images, as perhaps it didn't have the equipment to record dialog properly, but oof, that narration is d...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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SBG/This Week in Geek - Reviewed: The Running Man (2025), Jurassic World Rebirth, The White Buffalo, Grizzly Man, Headhunters, Captain Ron, A Woman Under the Influence, Hamlet (Andrew Scott), Beatriz's War, PT 109
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November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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My ★★★ review of Capote (2005)
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A ★★★ review of Capote (2005)
While Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance is unimpeachable in Capote, the film just reminds me why I'm so disinterested in most biopics. There's so much that could have been done thematically with th...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Cape Fear (1991)
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A ★★★½ review of Cape Fear (1991)
Robert deNiro biting a woman's cheek off is what put me off him for at least a decade. I couldn't unsee it.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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My #LastFourWatched

Paranoid fun out of Norway.

(Not) National Lampoon's Caribbean Vacation.

Snowy Mountain Moby Dick.

An unfairly maligned actioner.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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My ★★★★ review of Cape Fear (1962)
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A ★★★★ review of Cape Fear (1962)
How great is Bernard Herrmann's score for the original 1962 Cape Fear? It drapes what is otherwise a bright small town and various vacation spots with an eerie menace from the start. It's great. But t...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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My ★★ review of The Cannonball Run (1981)
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A ★★ review of The Cannonball Run (1981)
When I was a kid, there must have been a big cross-country car rally fad. My grandparents had all these rally trophies, and my TV kept pushing cross-country racing movies like The Love Bug and The Can...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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My ★★★½ review of Cannibal Tours (1988)
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A ★★★½ review of Cannibal Tours (1988)
There's something quite interesting going on in Cannibal Tours because the documentary flips the script on the usual way of doing something like this. While natives of Papua New Guinea ARE interviewed...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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My ★★★★ review of Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010)
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A ★★★★ review of Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010)
More than 20 years after the first film, Mark Lewis returns to the subject of Cane Toads in The Conquest, and while the frogs have advanced on Australia, humanity hasn't made much of a dent on its end...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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My ★★★★ review of Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
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A ★★★★ review of Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
Mark Lewis's lo-fi documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is by turns delightful and frightening, just like his subject. In the 1930s, Australian cane sugar farmers imported these big fat frogs ...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Beatriz's War (2013)
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A ★★★½ review of Beatriz's War (2013)
Billed as East Timor's first feature film, Beatriz's War is an ambitious historical lesson, spanning decades, as the natives fight for independence from Indonesian tyranny - made manifest in a particu...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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SBG/Doctor Who #1084: Return of the Autons
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Jo and Cliff fight off a new Auton invasion.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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SBG/This Week in Geek - Reviewed: Die My Love, 3 Women, Quintet, Breakfast of Champions, Taskmaster, Tanna, Kumu Hina, The Movement, Torg Eternity, improv
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November 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Candyman (2021)
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A ★★★½ review of Candyman (2021)
Seems the main gripe fans have with the movie is that it too obviously checkmarks the franchise being about gentrification. I have a different take. All the horror buffs talk about the original Candym...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Candyman (1992)
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A ★★★½ review of Candyman (1992)
I never realized that Candyman is based on a short story by Clive Barker, but it makes complete sense given the way the murderous spirit is summoned (a lot easier than a puzzle box). Tony Todd just ha...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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My ★★★½ review of Breakfast of Champions (1999)
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A ★★★½ review of Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Loosely adapted from one of Kurt Vonnegut's best known novels, Breakfast of Champions is naturally a heavy satire on American society, borrowing its idiom from advertising to expose the shallow nothin...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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My #LastFourWatched

A couple of Altmans...

A Polynesian documentary...

An intense bout of postpartum psychosis.

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November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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My ★★★★ review of The Candidate (1972)
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A ★★★★ review of The Candidate (1972)
To be sure, The Candidate's reality cannot match today's media circus, but if Robert Redford (as producer) wanted to explore that moment in American politics when surface became more important than su...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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My A ★★★ review of Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
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A ★★★ review of Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
In Can't Hardly Wait, a large cast of high schoolers go to a graduation party, all intent on SOMEthing - getting laid, getting revenge, finally telling their crush they love them... - so it's essentia...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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My review of Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
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A ★★★ review of Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Can't Buy Me Love mowed the lawn so Pretty Woman could run. It's such a John Hughes movie, I remembered it AS a John Hughes movie. But it's Tuscon instead of Chicago, so I quickly realized it wasn't. ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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My review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
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A ★★★½ review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Based on the tell-all of the same name, Can You Ever Forgive Me? recounts writer Lee Israel's 1990s crime spree, falsifying literary letters and selling them to get herself out of a hole. As a story, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM