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  Space Truckers 1996

  ★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Ha! hopefully this helped dennis hopper feel a bit better about getting old. this is exactly as bad as to be expected, just so many cringey, ham-fisted one-liners, but for what i assume was a very low budget at least the production design was also crap. stop calling dorff "kid." why did his character exist? the women are just passed around at will, very creepy. debi mazar's accent is annoying. charles dance's in-between villain was pointless. it was slow, with…

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  Seven Golden Men 1965

  ★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Just another in type to throw on the pile. Very disappointed by the Trovajoli score, which may as well have been lifted from the 10th Victim or five other films (or perhaps they lifted it from this?), and with all the crossings and double-crossings, nothing really mattered in the end. Fun to see Moschin play a German, however poorly his accent was dubbed, and Podestà was a nice diversion -- but literally served no other purpose -- but for being an international heist film, I'd have enjoyed more postcard shots and a bit more personality.

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  Chameleon Street 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2023 6

  There's something so hauntingly familiar about this performance, something between charming and unsettling. What a bold, confident film, if maybe a bit flashy, and what a nuanced character, like the complete inverse of Hal Ashby's Being There. It absolutely blows my mind that Wendell B. Harris, Jr. has yet to make another film, that his filmography as an actor is so strangely bare. A huge loss for all of us. Here's hoping he's got something left in the tank, and that he's allowed to start the engines.

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  The Heartbreak Kid 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 19 May 2024

  A grown-up, wonderfully cynical take on The Graduate, in some ways. Grodin was so, so good at playing an asshole, and this must be his best performance. Berlin is incredible, too! The egg salad, my lord. Neil Simon is a genius but Elaine May is a god. This is so, so relevant in the era of online dating, holy shit. We suck.