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  • Jaws
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
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  • Bees #2

    ★★½

  • Kitchen Window

    ★★★

  • Hollyshorts Greeting

    ★★★★

  • Laura Palmer

    ★★★

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Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Okay, so, I haven't been to a movie theater since I saw Parasite back in February of 2020.

This was the movie that got me back to the theater...

... AND IT WAS TOTALLY FREAKING WORTH IT. Loved loved loved loved loved loved it. If there was ever the *right* movie to reintroduce me to theaters after a five-year absence, this would be the one.

It felt like a love letter to what it is that we cherish in movies, and bless Ryan Coogler forever for composing that letter so beautifully.

THAT ONE SCENE IN CLUB JUKE. My word. Perfection.

The Lost Boys

1987

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Here's to celebrating 37 years of this wonderful movie!

I always loved watching this. It was such a treat whenever The Lost Boys would show up as a weekend movie on any number of channels back in the day, even in its edited-for-TV form. It was a treat watching this just now on Tubi.

Gah. Perfect blend and balance of humor and horror in such a way that neither one seems overwhelming or overpowering.

And it STILL has the greatest final line in cinema history.

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Bees #2

2002

★★½ Liked 4

[GOB voice]

Bees?!

Kitchen Window

2002

★★★ Liked Watched

Either I've understood everything or I've understood nothing.

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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

2023

★★★★★ Liked 2

To put it simply, I was not at all adequately prepared for the emotional journey of this movie. Not at all.

It goes to more than simply revisiting characters I've loved watching time and time and time again. Along with Tony Shalhoub as Monk, it feels as if Jason Gray-Stanford as Disher, Ted Levine as Stottlemeyer, Hector Elizondo as Dr. Bell, Melora Hardin as Trudy, and especially Traylor Howard as Natalie haven't lost a step since the 2009 finale of…

Jaws

1975

★★★★★ Liked 7

Hooper: "Mr. Vaughn... what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine."

Letterboxd folks... what we are dealing with here is a perfect movie, an entertainment machine.

Once again, I have returned to Amity Island for my annual Fourth of July viewing of Jaws. And once again, the movie remains a singularly, impossibly absorbing cinematic experience.

Even with all the muttonchops, beer cans that could double as army tanks, and archaic arcade machines, this movie remains…

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