Howard Berry

Favorite films

  • Tootsie
  • Local Hero
  • What's Up, Doc?
  • The Muppet Movie

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  • The Cameraman

    ★★★★

  • Superman III

  • Supergirl

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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Supergirl

1984

Watched

Faye Dunaway finds an extremely powerful magic ball, and teams up with a drunken reject from the cast of Dynasty and the local school IT teacher to use magic to make the gardener horny for her. That’s actually the plot.

Ishtar

1987

★★★½ Liked Watched

Genuinely funny and sweet at times, goofy lots of the time, dull in parts, but not a dud and not at all deserving of the bad reputation. It’s a good film which runs dry in the desert, no pun intended, but picks itself up again for the splendidly silly and funny ending pay-off. See it, enjoy it.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches

2020

Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The Muppet Movie

1979

★★★★★ Liked Watched

One of the greatest films ever made. No exaggeration.

All the human guest stars know their place is secondary to a singing frog, a joke telling bear, a starlet pig and a chicken-iring whatever; and they play their roles with sincerity and believability.  Watch out for Steve Martin’s obnoxious waiter, and the entire sequence with Mel Brook’s evil scientist are particular highlights.

Charles Durning’s Doc Hopper is never once played as anything but straight, and he is clearly not only…

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