Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Beekeeper 2024

  ★★½ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  Joe Biden saw this and immediately pardoned Hunter.

  I’m sorry, but no boomer would shoot themselves in the head an hour after being catfished & hacked and pass up a golden opportunity to moan and complain to their children for years to come. Some really brutal exposition here befitting the “this is just playing in the background while you’re looking at your other screen” nature of this. Biggest kudos go to costume designer Kelli Jones for creating a fake Arc’teryx logo (which appears to be a sabertooth tiger skeleton) for the tactical Tier 1 operator jackets.

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  Mother's Boys 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Aug 2024

  Hits every pleasure point - we’ve got a “the design committee needs to see those plans tomorrow!” overworked architect father, the moody son doing Laurie Simmons-style installation art, macro closeups of frogs, 1st AND 2nd AD credited in the opening titles.

  Most importantly, Jamie Lee is fucking GOING for it - doing her own stunt driving absolutely whipping the 500 SL convertible through the Pasadena foothills, cranking one out with the help of the tub faucet and punching all the windows in her penthouse.

Popular reviews

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  Dead Bang 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Apr 2024 4

  ”All that sunshine and pussy thins the blood!”

  Might be my favorite sad sack cop - Don Johnson here is sweating profusely, throwing up on suspects, eyes always bloodshot, unable to see without his taped-together granny glasses, living directly under the Burbank Airport flight path. For a brief moment you think it's going to be an odd couple buddy flick with Bob Balaban as a yuppie nerd parole officer resplendent in a chocolate velour Adidas tracksuit.

  But Frankenheimer (cooking as…

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  Civil War 2024

  ½ Watched 13 Apr 2024 1

  Vividly captures the nightmarish feeling of being trapped in the corner of a sparsely attended house party with a twice-divorced coked-up Gen X loser as he puts on his De La Soul playlist.

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