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  • The Hired Hand

    ★★★★

  • Crimes at the Dark House

    ★★★★

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    ★★★★

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The Hired Hand

The Hired Hand

1971
★★★★ Liked Rewatched

I liked Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand a lot when it was fresh out of the box, but when I revisited it again a few years back, I wasn’t in the proper mood to be receptive. This time, I was very impressed.

The film is slow and contemplative, with considerable self-consciously arty touches, the sort of thing that’s not for all tastes. (See below.) As you may have heard down at Big Ed’s Billiard Parlor, your humble correspondent prefers style…

Crimes at the Dark House

Crimes at the Dark House

1940
★★★★ Liked Watched

I went into George King’s Crimes at the Dark House just hoping it would be watchable, but it turns out to be a hoot, a perfect example of nothing exceeding like excess.

The false Sir Percival Glyde (Tod Slaughter), whose real name we never learn, murders the real Glyde on Australia’s goldfields and comes to the Glyde family estate in England expecting to inherit a fortune. Alas, the real Glyde’s recently deceased pa left 15,000 pounds of debt, while our…

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg

2025
★★★★★ Liked Watched 5

I approached James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg hoping it wouldn’t be just a Nazis-are-pure-evil, we’re-morally-superior account of the 1945-1946 International Military Tribunal. It’s impossible to present an account of this historic event without running into predictability now and then, but for the most part, the film is powerful drama.

The protagonists are Dr. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), an army psychiatrist assigned to make psychological assessments of the twenty-two Nazis on trial, Robert Jackson (Michael Shannon), the Supreme Court justice assigned as the…

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991
★★★★ Liked Rewatched 2

“I see everything.”

In the last couple of weeks, the inhabitants of Chateau Noir have started at least a dozen films we were unable to finish because they were bad, boring, or incompatible with our many moods. I asked the dogs if they had any ideas about how to deal with this dilemma, and they pointed out the obvious: go with a popcorn movie. After going back and forth for a few hours, we realized that while we watched The…

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