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Music and movie lover, actor, singer and a much loved grandpa.
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A ★★★½ review of Last Christmas (2019)
On Christmas Day, 2016, George Michael died of cardiomyopathy with myocarditis at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53 years old. He was half of the duo that was Wham! with Andre Ridgeley and g...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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A ★★★★ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025)
The world was on the cusp of a new decade. In France, there was about to be a cinematic renaissance, a movement that would change the landscape of filmmaking. Claude Chabrol had garnered attention wit...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A ★★★★ review of Elio (2025)
4-5% of children in the United States lose at least one parent before they reach the age of twelve. There are no statistics for kids under twelve who lose both parents. This puts the protagonist of th...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Fatman (2020)
If it is one thing we do not want at Christmastime it is a skinny Santa. Every year malls feature a fat man in a red suit, even if that heftiness requires some supplementation. Santa is featured in a ...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A ★★★½ review of BRATS (2024)
It was Lauren Bacall that informally designated Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop as The Rat Pack in 1960. They were all Las Vegas entertainers who were now ...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
J.R.R. Tolkien created a world, a fantastical (and very British) land called Middle Earth. Peter Jackson has made these creations of a singular author come alive on the screen in what are now six majo...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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A ★★★★ review of KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
If you search the internet, you will learn that K-Pop is losing its market share in Korea as the music genre expands to the western world in a big way. But, even here in America the genre may be wanin...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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A ★★★ review of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)
I made it. After spending nearly five hours yesterday watching the first three SpongeBob movies (all reviewed here on Letterboxd – you’re welcome), I finally finished the marathon (and the reason for ...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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A ★★★★ review of The Housemaid (2025)
It seems like so many movies are made in upper class and uber wealthy settings, in homes that most people who buy movie tickets could never afford to live in. Sometimes those movies are made in homes ...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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A ★★★½ review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)
My apologies to the fans of SpongeBob SquarePants, but there was an eleven-year gap between the very first SpongeBob movie and this one. It was eleven long years that fans had to wait, wonder, and spe...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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A ★★★½ review of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
I am, as they say, late to the party. Since 1999 SpongeBob SquarePants has grown into a cultural phenomenon that I am just now trying to assimilate. For kids who grew up in the 2000s this would not be...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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A ★★★ review of Oh. What. Fun. (2025)
This movie opens with a salient point. When one considers all the classic Christmas movies, well, most of them seem to feature men in the starring roles. Santa Claus (a man) usually gets top billing. ...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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A ★★★½ review of Ella McCay (2025)
There are probably not a few among you reading this who grew up with a parent who cheated. Nearly 25% of marriages are plagued by cheaters. I think I was one of them, but I was young, and never really...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A ★★★ review of Almost Christmas (2016)
Imagine a Christmas movie where a wife, mother, grandmother, and sister died the year prior and now the whole family gathers in the wake of that loss. I mean, it is just something that has never been ...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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A ★★½ review of Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
I guess the first Anaconda movie (1997) did not have enough box office gas to get Columbia to green light a second bite. It was seven years until this sequel hit theaters. It was made for less than ha...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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A ★★★ review of Anaconda (1997)
I do not mind snakes. Since I was a kid, I found them to be cool. Of course, I am talking about grass snakes and garter snakes here, the species I found in the yard. Okay, I grew up in north central W...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Terrorism in Australia, a shooting at Brown, and now this tragic news.
Rob Reiner, wife found dead inside Brentwood home in apparent homicide | KTLA share.google/QlHiuy26w1gx...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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A ★★★½ review of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)
Yes, Martin DiBergi (Rob Reiner) is back. He famously filmed a documentary forty years ago about a heavy metal rock band that catapulted the band into infamy. That band was called Spinal Tap. Over the...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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A ★★★★ review of The Mastermind (2025)
I think I was eight or nine when I got addicted to View-Master reels. I couldn’t get enough of them. Of course, once you flipped around a reel a few times you had pretty much exhausted the adrenalin r...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A ★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
I grew up in the Church. I spent a career working in the Church. So, Rian Johnson’s latest iteration of the Blanc Benoit (Daniel Craig) series taking place in a religious setting was of particular int...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Dust Bunny (2025)
When I was a kid, the problem was not that there was a monster under my bed. Rather I was haunted by tall black spectral entities that flowed from the shadows on my walls at night. They would move slo...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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A ★★★★½ review of Hamnet (2025)
Jesus, Mohammad, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Elvis, Shakespeare, and even Taylor Swift; they all have the same thing in common. They are all human beings. They were born just like y...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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A ★★★★ review of F1 (2025)
When I was a kid I had a slot car racing set. The slots in the track were powered. The cars had wired brushes that sat in the slots to give power to the cars. At the time, that was the technology that...
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December 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
After spending a whole day yesterday watching Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987), Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 (1989). Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990), and Sile...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM