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  Cisco Pike 1972

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Not bad at all but not great. Glimmers of good performances reside within but everyone is a bit one note and even Harry Dean can’t quite convert it into something more than it’s exteriors. Not a bad hang it just doesn’t have much to say for most of its runtime and tries to jam a lot of commentary into the final 20. Despite the allure of the synopsis and the cast it’s mostly only notable for seventies character piece enthusiasts but if that’s your jam you should find something to like.

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  The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025 6

  Hell, I ain’t never had a passion.
  Well, what do you call that vengeance that naws at the very walls of your soul?
  That’s the passion that will nurture the dandelions above your grave.

  Seems as personal of a film for Sam as the more cited Alfredo Garcia but from a time before the burnout and nihilism had took hold quite so deeply in him. His funniest, horniest and most heretic, but also very much his kindest film. A truly…

Popular reviews

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  Death and the Compass 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  An Exploration of Alex Cox #4

  Despite having his budget and resources stripped Alex Cox kept striving to push out interesting cinema following his blacklist from Hollywood. After very much liking El Patrullero, his 1991 Spanish language follow up to Walker made in Mexico, I decided to check out this one that he put out a year later. 

  This was a British/French/Spanish co-production which originally aired on the BBC before being recut with some additional footage and given a limited…

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  Blue Thunder 1983

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Bit of a mixed bag that straddles the line between the 70’s and 80’s action movie styles. I mainly watched to scratch another Warren Oates role off but it’s got a decent cast all round with a typically tired 80’s Scheider in lead plus Malcolm McDowell as a German coded villain you just want to slap and an impossibly young looking Daniel Stern carrying big Tye Sheridan energy. Would have been great to see Oates get to play more of…