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Favorite films

  • Heat
  • King of New York
  • Deep Cover
  • To Live and Die in L.A.

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  • A Working Man

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    ★★★★★

  • Black Book

    ★★★★½

  • Crimson Tide

    ★★★★★

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  • New Rose Hotel

    New Rose Hotel

    ★★★★★

    This is your ticket out of the boneyard. 

    Imagination as reality. The cold-hard fist of halftruth strikes you down. Your body hits the pavement, the dirt, the bloody street corner. You sit up, go to wipe your mouth, but your lips are gone. Not severed, stolen. Muffled sounds fight to be heard behind your bruised chin. Your screams become rainwater. Jazz in an empty arena. A saxophone plays into, no, out of a casket. Pine, oak, steel, marble. Elements forgo…

  • The Long Goodbye

    The Long Goodbye

    ★★★★★

    A match strikes any surface it can find. A cigarette touches the lips of a man out of his own time. The time traveler takes a drag. Smoke fills every room that grief, repression, and loss haven’t… and then fills the others up anyway. The house starts to burn. The flames take their time, then dance the night away, lapping at the stars above, while the time traveler saunters past the fire, looking for another surface to strike. 

    Did he light the fire? Had it always been there? What will burn next? Well, besides the next cigarette lodged between his lips.

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  • A Working Man

    A Working Man

    Jason Statham beats the shit out of random henchmen with a (literal) skull while a massive Black man named Dutch sits on a throne made out of exhaust pipes and motorcycle parts and watches with nearly erotic admiration. It’s time to acknowledge that Escape from New York and The Warriors have done more for American movies than almost anything else.

  • Black Book

    Black Book

    ★★★★½

    Seconds still pass in the eleventh hour.

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  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

    Why does the caged bird sing? Because he has a voice. And the world deserves to hear it.

  • They Cloned Tyrone

    They Cloned Tyrone

    Funny as hell. Surprising and clever. And this trio is out of this world when they’re together on screen. I wish I could own a copy.