Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2025

  ‘My friend your names in the great golden book in the sky’. From the moment I heard the first piece of score, I was in. That is as Robert Mitchum’s face order a piece of pie and a cup of coffee to than talk about guns, it was a wrap. These are the ones I jones for, what the 70s was all about. I could watch Robert Mitchum hold wise guy conversations in diners all day. Everyone’s setting everyone up,…

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  Across 110th Street 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Mar 2025 2

  A spaghetti western in Harlem. Unbelievable acting throughout. Worth watching for Doc Morherfuckin Johnson aka Richard Ward’s voice alone.  The brown wood and yellow/green paint of the seventies. Inventive shooting style, energetic, setting up shots and thinking how they will edit together moving the story forward. Real people, real faces. Fluorescent lights and neon. New York grime. You can smell this film, the thick fear and anger. Yaphet Kotto is a master. 

  Would make a great crime double bill with The New Centurions.

Popular reviews

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Mar 2025

  Got to see it on the big screen tonight at Broadway cinema in Nottingham. The sound design was booming. Still so insane there is a film made by David Lynch that stars Richard Pryor, Jack Nanace, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey and Robert Loggia aka Feech Mother Fuckin La Manna. CRAZY. This was more unsettling, claustrophobic, intriguing and dark than ever. Deep black lodge, heavy Twin Peaks Return. Robert Blake did me in. Patricia Arquette is so beautiful and amazing in…

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  The Squeeze 1987

  ★★★ Watched 13 Sep 2024

  ‘Hey Mr. Keaton, I will remind you that you are contractually obligated to consume two double espressos before every scene’. Neon-TV-Triceratops, Keatons Eyebrows, Meatloaf Mafia, Fucking insane amazing 80s score, Ralphy Cifaretto and Beansie, Cigarettes, Keaton’s Curly Mullet, convoluted storyline, ‘Bulgarian Agents!’, Incase you didn’t know this is a New York movie, cocaine? Rae Dawn Chong as a sidekick once again, Meatloaf’s ponytail, ughhh zany dialogue.