Movie Reviews by Siskoid

A ★★★½ review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) Based on the tell-all of the same name, Can You Ever Forgive Me? recounts writer Lee Israel's 1990s crime spree, falsifying literary letters and selling them to get herself out of a hole. As a story, ...

My review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
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A ★★★ review of Camille Claudel (1988) Back when Camille Claudel came out, Gérard Depardieu's participation made it appointment cinema, although it's really Isabelle Adjani's show and she doesn't disappoint as the 19th-Century sculptress w...

My review of Camille Claudel (1988)
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Well I can vouch for Accident!

This Week in Geek (2-08/11/25)

This Week in Geek - Reviewed: Bugonia, Hearts Beat Loud, Nashville, Black Angel, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, Prison on Fire 1-2, School on Fire, Lunana - A Yak in the Classroom, Ten Zan Ultimate Mission
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A ★★★½ review of The Cameraman (1928) Getting into trouble trying to impress a girl seems to be THE standard Buster Keaton plot, and so it is with The Cameraman. He plays an unassuming photographer who gets into the news reel game to impr...

My review of The Cameraman (1928)
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A ★★★ review of Black Angel (1946) Is that an "M" reference in Black Angel, giving Peter Lorre is in it (as a slicker operator than usual, I like it), or just a coincidence? Be that as it may, this little Film Noir never really goes fa...

My 3 star review of Black Angel (1946)
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A ★★★★½ review of Camera Buff (1979) I love Kieślowski's work, and Camera Buff, which looks and feels like the eleventh story of his Decalog, is no exception. An unassuming man buys a film camera to record his new born child growing up a...

My 4½ star review of Camera Buff (1979)
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A ★★★★ review of Camera (2000) An unusually poignant short film made by Cronenberg with one of Videodrome's character actors (you'll find it on that film's DVD).

My 4 star review of Camera (2000)
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My #LastFourWatched

You heart may be beating, but everything's on fire.

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A ★★★★ review of A Camel (1981) Though A Camel is categorized as a documentary, it's more than that. There's a definite narrative as the camel, sadly fated to run a claustrophobic mill all day, has waking dreams and memories, a whol...

My ★★★★ review of A Camel (1981)
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A ★★★½ review of Cam (2018) Cam has one element I'm always game for, and that's immersion in a world I know nothing about. That's how I can watch films about the stock market or, I dunno, the hi-octane world of glass blowing, an...

My ★★★½ review of Cam (2018)
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A ★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025) Bugonia: An ancient Mediterranean belief that bees could be spontaneously generated from the carcass of a sacrificed bull or cow through abiogenesis. I'll leave that here and jump into my review... Wh...

My ★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025)
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A ★★★★ review of Calvary (2014) Calvary, a movie title sure to play havoc with your auto-correct (it refers to the hill where Jesus was crucified, also known as Golgotha), confronts the traditional Catholic church with the modern wo...

My ★★★★ review of Calvary (2014)
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A ★★★ review of Call of Cuteness (2017) Very interesting art style, but I think decrying the meme-ification of cats as on par with other animal rights abuses is overstating things.

My ★★★ review of Call of Cuteness (2017)
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A ★★★ review of Call Northside 777 (1948) I feel like I'm always saying this, but I'm not a huge fan of modern biopics/true stories unless they also showcase great film making in some way. There's just such a formula to them that drains my in...

My ★★★ review of Call Northside 777 (1948)
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A ★★★★½ review of Call Me by Your Name (2017) Call Me By Your Name is a gorgeous-looking film, making the most of its Italian location cinematographically, and in line with the sensuality inherent in its subject matter. Set in 1983, the sexual re...

My ★★★★½ review of Call Me by Your Name (2017)
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A ★★★½ review of The Call (2020) The Korean take on Frequency is The Call, in which two young women, living in the same house, make contact across 20 years. The lines must have gotten crossed. Each of them has tragedy in their lives ...

My ★★★½ review of The Call (2020)
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A ★★★ review of California Typewriter (2016) It's odd to think that typewriters are an artifact of the past, but they are, despite what many talking heads seem to think in California Typewriter, a documentary that speaks to the people who love t...

My ★★★ review of California Typewriter (2016)
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My #LastFourWatched

Escaped lunatics, ancient kaiju, reanimated corpses, and child witches... Happy Halloween!

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A ★★★½ review of The Call of Cthulhu (2005) What if Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu had been made into a movie in the 1920s when the story is supposed to have taken place? That's what the makers of the 2005 adaptation have tried to do, and it m...

My ★★★½ review of The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
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A ★★★½ review of Caliber 9 (1972) Though I felt Fernando Di Leo's The Italian Connection was too sadistic and didn't use its American stars well, I wonder if part of my ambivalent reaction was due to the English dub. Caliber 9, part o...

My ★★★½ review of Caliber 9 (1972)
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A ★★★½ review of Calendar Girls (2003) Based on a true story from only 4 years before - so still in the swing of the phenomenon - 2003's Calendar Girls has British National Treasures Helen Mirren and Julie Walters head a cast of middle-age...

My ★★★½ review of Calendar Girls (2003)
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A ★★★★ review of Calendar (1993) Calendar is the shortest piece in the Essential films of Atom Egoyan release, and the cheapest, but it's also the most personal. Egoyan and real-life spouse Arsinée Khanjian play versions of themselve...

My ★★★★ review of Calendar (1993)
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A ★★★½ review of Calamity Jane (1953) The natural double feature partner to Annie Get Your Gun, 1953's Calamity Jane has a similar heroine, terribly racist attitude towards Native Americans (though it's more name-calling than caricature, ...

My ★★★½ review of Calamity Jane (1953)
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This Week in Geek (19-25/10/25)

SBG/This Week in Geek - Reviewed: Black Phone 2, Bring Her Back, The Maze, Frankenstein Unbound, Something in the Dirt, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Shadow in the Cloud, NIghtshift, Islands on the Edge of Time, Doctor Who-The Space Age
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A ★★★★ review of The Caine Mutiny (1954) The Caine Mutiny gives you a lot of context before getting to the heart of its subject matter, so by the time Bogart's Captain Queeg rows in, you're familiar with ship personnel and operations, and yo...

My ★★★★ review of The Caine Mutiny (1954)
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A ★★★½ review of Bring Her Back (2025) Sally Hawkins, nooooo, why you so creepy??? Well, I love sally Hawkins in anything, and in Bring Her Back, she's just about the worst foster mom imaginable, a kind of Mike Leigh character if the impro...

My ★★★½ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
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A ★★★½ review of Caged Heat (1974) In his first directorial effort, Caged Heat, Jonathan Demme makes the case that women's prison exploitation movies should work the same way blaxploitation does, i.e. have its characters endure (in thi...

My ★★★½ review of Caged Heat (1974)
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My #LastFourWatched

Spoofing conspiracy theorists

La Bête de Gevaudan!

An early 80s horror mash-up

Dreamy hotel life (my nightmare, personally)

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A ★★★½ review of Caged (1950) Noir is the New Black! At some point, all prison movies tend to be the same, but 1950 is probably not that point. Caged is a melodramatic appeal for prison reform, with a crusading warden unable to ma...

My ★★★½ review of Caged (1950)
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