RobKong

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As for me and my house, we celebrate #LetterboxdFriday

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This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are The Amazing Mr. X, Black Magic, The Mad Magician and The Thin Blue Line.

Three evil magician movies and a true crime doc.

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A ★★★★★ review of The Thin Blue Line (1988) It is impossible for a documentary to be objective. It doesn’t matter how Cinema Verité it is, there are still a myriad of choices that influence the presentation from where the camera is pointed, to ...

True Crime Documentary before True Crime was really a thing.

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A ★★★★★ review of The Mad Magician (1954) With the Vincent Price-led anaglyph 3D horror film House of Wax being a hit, Warner Brothers attempt to repeat this success the following year with The Mad Magician. Although the plot isn’t all that o...

Vincent Price in another 3D horror movie where his business partner drives him to murder.

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A ★★★★ review of Black Magic (1949) Black Magic is based on one of Alexandre Dumas’ lesser-known work about a man who started his life with the name Joseph Balsamo. He apparently existed in real life but Dumas chose to write about the m...

A part perfectly suited for Orson Welles in a movie that can’t capture what could have been.

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A ★★★★ review of The Amazing Mr. X (1948) The Amazing Mr. X is about a widow who lives in a huge mansion overlooking a rear projection beach. She begins to hear her dead husband whom she never got over. She "accidentally" runs into a huckster...

Con artist redemption and ghost special effects!

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A ★★½ review of Thanksgiving (2023) In 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez released Grindhouse to theaters. It was an anthology meant to emulate the kinds of movies that pushed the envelope in violence, gore and taste that were ...

A slasher set around Thanksgiving is wide open real estate and if Eli Roth had delivered, this could have been a lot of people’s tradition.

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Agree.

This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which are The Toxic Avenger, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and It Happened One Night.

A tasteless reboot, a septequel, a movie better than its pun title and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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A ★★★★★ review of It Happened One Night (1934) I watched Gone with the Wind recently and it made me crave a rewatch of It Happened One Night. Although there were technically romantic comedies predating this film, none of them solidified the tropes...

All your favorite romcoms owe a debt to It Happened One Night.

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This is a screenshot of my Letterboxd profile showing the last four movies I watched which were The Toxic Avenger, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, The Sisters Brothers and It Happened One Night.

A tasteless reboot, a septequel, a movie better than its pun title and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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A ★★★★ review of The Sisters Brothers (2018) I remember the trailer for The Sisters Brothers back in 2018. They chose parts of the film that appeared to be slapstick instead of simple violence and they used a cover of the song “Tainted Love.” Th...

A lame pun title and terrible marketing kept this engaging Western from getting the audience it deserved.

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A ★★★½ review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) The first Mission Impossible movie in 1996 was helmed by Brian de Palma and was a perfect fit for his clockwork Rube Goldberg style. It was exciting and fun and showed off Tom Cruise’s core strength w...

Countdowns and Tom Cruise core strength.

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A ★★★★ review of The Toxic Avenger (2023) Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Entertainment peaked in the 80s making gross, silly, violent, juvenile movies that most people only saw through the magic of VHS. Sgt. Kabukiman, Class of Nuke ‘Em High and the...

Juvenile, gross and funny.

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This is a very good summary.

A ★★★★ review of Gone with the Wind (1939) The copy of Gone with the Wind on HBO Max has a TCM introduction contextualizing the inherent racism in the film and then there is an additional CYA text intro similar to the Disney+ that says it was ...

I tried to explain to my daughter how funny the curtain rod gag on The Carol Burnett Show was and she stared at me blankly. I guess you just had to be there.

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Ha ha ha!

A ★★★ review of Torch Singer (1933) Claudette Colbert gets knocked up by a rich man who goes overseas leaving her destitute. She puts their child up for adoption and starts a career as a club singer. She becomes very famous and by accid...

Claudette Colbert precode weeper about poverty forcing her to give up her baby. But then she gets rich and everything is okay now.

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A ★★★ review of Together (2025) An obvious allegory for codependency where real-life couple Allison Brie and Dave Franco drink the water from a magic cave and start to meld whenever they touch. That’s about it. Together shows us the...

Body horror about dysfunction.

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A ★★★★★ review of The Bitter Stems (1956) The Bitter Stems is an Argentine tragic Noir about a journalist unhappy with his life. He’s paid a paltry reporter’s salary and the job isn’t as exciting as he thought it would be. He’s also regrettin...

Great Noir.

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I would read more of your take on this.

It sure is. Wish someone else would take up the hand-painted mantle.

A ★★★½ review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) Jodorowsky’s Dune is a documentary about the attempt to adapt the Frank Herbert novel by a Spanish artist known for his symbolic, cult films and included a dream team of collaborators including Dan O’...

The movie in Jodorowsky’s head, and mine, with these collaborators is mind-blowing. Wish I could see it.

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A ★★★★★ review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) America’s first feature length animated film (Germany beat us by 11 years with the paper cutout film The Adventures of Prince Achmed), Disney went all out to make a visually stunning piece of cinema. ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is beautiful.

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This is a screenshot of the part of my profile showing the last four films I have seen which are Shivers, The Running Man, As Above, So Below and The Life of Chuck.

Cronenberg body horror, a Wright misstep, Dowdle big ideas in too small a package and a Flanagan change of pace.

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A ★★★½ review of The Life of Chuck (2024) Mike Flanagan who is famous for his horror movies adapts a story from Stephen King who is famous for his horror novels but it isn't horror. The Life of Chuck is a film broken down into three parts cou...

What an uplifting, life-affirming story about how nothing matters if a rando accountant kicks the bucket.

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A ★★★ review of As Above, So Below (2014) Part The Sentinel (1977), part The Beyond (1981), part Flatliners (1990), part The Descent (2005) and with a little Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) tossed in, As Above, So Below is a lot of ...

As Opportunity, So Wasted

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