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Favorite films

  • Longtime Companion
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

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  • Behold a Pale Horse

    ★★★★

  • Troop Beverly Hills

    ★★

  • Captain Newman, M.D.

    ★★★½

  • Cat Daddies

    ★★★

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Behold a Pale Horse

1964

★★★★ Watched

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, soldier Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck) flees to as part of the defeated forces. After 20 years there, he learns that his mother is dying and plans to return to Spain to see her. However, Viñolas (Anthony Quinn), a police officer with a vendetta, prepares forces to trap Artiguez.

A priest, Francisco (Omar Sharif), tries to advise Artiguez not to travel to Spain, but Artiguez ultimately chooses to leave for a fateful…

Troop Beverly Hills

1989

★★ Watched

With her marriage breaking up, Beverly Hills housewife Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) boosts her self-esteem by leading a local troop of Wilderness Girls. Although Phyllis' version of roughing it is spending the night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that suits her privileged troop just fine.

Unfortunately, when Phyllis falls afoul of a rival leader, the girls are threatened with having their group dissolved, unless they can prove their wilderness skills at the annual jamboree.

Lightweight and inoffensive for sure.…

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Challengers

2024

★★★★★ 1

While I have found Zendaya to be an attractive and stylish young woman, I haven't really warmed up to her as a serious actress all that much. She was fine in the "Spider-Man" franchise since it didn't require any great stretches for her. I feel that in the "Dune" series she is overshadowed by other, more talented actors. And in the more serious "Malcolm and Marie" she was in over her head in the cheap imitation of "Who's Afraid of…

The Toolbox Murders

1978

★★ Watched

In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged man goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering women with various tools from his toolbox. He repurposes claw hammers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning as he kidnaps a fifteen year old girl and ties her up in the bedroom of his house.

The film claims to be based on true events, though no one has been able to …