Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Vice Squad 1982

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025 1

  RIP Wings Hauser 

  Top tier 80s exploitation filmmaking. Gritty, violent, and a product of its time. Wings Hauser is unhinged in this as the psychotic pimp Ramrod. Such a great performance. He also sings on the opening song. Great time capsule of LA and essential viewing for anyone interested in grind-house/exploitation films. As wild as this is I feel like the craziest bit of trivia is the cinematography was done by John Alcott who worked with Kubrick on The Shinning, clockwork orange, and Barry Lyndon.

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  The Town 2010

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025 3

  Takes the formula of Heat and transplants it from LA to Boston. It’s easy to call it a Heat rip-off, but it feels more in line of what De Palma did with Hitchcock - acknowledging their accomplishments transcended the standards of filmmaking at the time to make their own winning formula that can be emulated with successful results. It’s an accomplishment for Affleck, but most importantly it’s a testament to the heist films that influenced this movie.

Popular reviews

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  Jaws 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jul 2024 1

  One of the best American movies ever made.

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2024 1

  This is top tier cage and top tier De Palma. The opening is a great 12 minute continuous shot inside and outside of an arena during a title fight match. Cage is an obnoxiously dressed and flashy crooked cop in Atlantic City. Less unhinged than his Bad Lieutenant performance, but still a lot of fun to watch. 

  De Palma uses his camera to choreograph long takes and flashbacks from different perspectives throughout the movie. He is a phenomenal director. Can’t believe I slept on him for so long. This is a great relic of a 90s investigative thriller. Feels like Blow Out for the broadcast era.