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Star Wars (1977)

More than forty years later, Star Wars still puts most popcorn cinema since to shame.

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A Fool There Was (1915)

I watched this early silent on my phone while waiting in the Sunoco lobby for my car inspection and service to finish.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

While I am not exactly the target audience for this movie, I still dug the hell out of it. John Cameron Mitchell is mind-blowingly incandescent as Hedwig in all her petulance but also strength and beauty.

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Repo Man (1984)

I must confess I spent a significant portion of this movie’s runtime bewildered.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.

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Coco (2017)

Happy Dia de Muertos!

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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)

The second Zombies movie sadly discards the original’s relentless worship of its color palette by bringing in werewolves

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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:

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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) – 2021 Review

Oct 2022 update: I wrote an expanded review of this, which you’ll find here.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Believe it or not, last year was the first time I ever watched Nightmare from start to finish, and I was completely smitten.