• Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    ★★★★★

    You never give me anything I really care about.

    The most powerful people reek of insecurity.

    The desire to be loved drives us all. For some, just one is enough.

    For others, no amount of it will ever be enough.

    You can’t do this to me.

  • And Then There Were None

    And Then There Were None

    ★★★★★

    That cat is so fucking cute

  • Fail Safe

    Fail Safe

    ★★★★★

    Dad loved it, mom and sister hated it. Sometimes the holiday vibes are worth sacrificing for the sake of true cinema.

  • The Godfather

    The Godfather

    ★★★★★

    Watched as a lead up to Coppola’s new cut of III (which @mods should be on LB) and damn, what a picture.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: absolutely nothing beats a death montage.

  • The Godfather Part II

    The Godfather Part II

    ★★★★★

    “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.”

    Michael Corleone pulls the world down around him. No one is safe from his rage.

    The Godfather Part II walked so Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again could run.

    P.S. The flashbacks rule. I’m just an idiot.

  • Halloween

    Halloween

    ★★½

    If you have a specific phobia of hammy acting and lame killing sequences, then Halloween will scare the shit out of you.

    But, yeah, it doesn't hold up at all through 2018 eyes. In fact, I can't help but wonder how this actually scared people way back when. The Exorcist came out 5 years earlier and is legitimately still upsetting. This? Total cheese-fest.

    Blows my mind that anyone would find this the least bit unsettling. Whatever.

    Grade: 5/10

  • Gremlins

    Gremlins

    ★★★★★

    Stripes is a better villain than Thanos.

  • Top Gun

    Top Gun

    ★★★½

    Planes go WHHHHIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR and Tom Cruise has a very distracting unibrow.

    Top Gun!

  • The Great Mouse Detective

    The Great Mouse Detective

    ★★★★½

    So great it doesn’t need a “live action” adaptation.

    Grade: 9/10

  • Batman

    Batman

    ★★★★★

    A magnificent, gaudy, supremely entertaining piece of pop art.

    We don’t talk enough about how much Danny Elfman’s score slaps. Or Jack Nicholson’s JPL (jokes per line).

    Oh, and a quick PSA: Batman counts as a Halloween movie.

  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

    Losing my goddamn mind waiting to see The Irishman again next week. With this, Scorsese tells the beginning and some of the middle of a life in the mob.

    The Irishman finishes up that story with the ending many deserve but don’t get.

  • JFK

    JFK

    ★★★★★

    As powerful as the first time I saw it many years ago on a dark and stormy night.

    As X said, we can pick apart the who and the what all we like, but 60 years on now, the argument really can’t be made that the “why” that Oliver Stone ended up at wasn’t dead on.

    The Presidency is a transitory role, acquiesced completely to military might, and sadly every President since Jack has fully bought into the mania. And…

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