Dan

Dan

Favorite films

  • Alien
  • Persona
  • Heat
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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  • Milius

    ★★★★

  • Conan the Barbarian

    ★★★★★

  • The Quick and the Dead

    ★★★½

  • Showdown in Little Tokyo

    ★★★½

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  • Hot Rod

    Hot Rod

    ★★★★★

    As someone who grew up connecting with my father via physical confrontation, this hit especially hard.

  • DeepStar Six

    DeepStar Six

    ★★★½

    Underwater shit? Check.

    Giant crustacean monster? Check.

    Well drawn characters with interesting dynamics and interplay? Check.

    Miguel Ferrer having a meltdown of epic proportions as his day cascades through one horrifically shitty situation to another, all stemming from his dumbass decision-making? Better believe that's a big-ass check.

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  • Bad Boys II

    Bad Boys II

    ★★★★★

    "Shit just got real."

    BAD BOYS II is a towering achievement. It is depraved, nihilistic, mean-spirited and altogether morally abhorrent. It is a wet-dream of macho archetypes that practically screams "no homo" in every slicked-down, ultra-glossy frame of its bloated 147 minute runtime. It does not take long to pick up on its utter disdain for its audience, nay, humanity itself, leaving you feeling queasy and sick to your stomach. It reads like a treatise on toxic masculinity; a manifesto…

  • From Russia with Love

    From Russia with Love

    ★★★½

    The score is great, the train fight kicks ass, Connery is great, the opening titles are awesome, and it feels like the series has already started to hit its groove, although a few Bond-franchise mainstays have yet to be implemented (the opening action scene with Bond finishing a previous mission, I didn't catch a "Bond, James Bond", still no original song over the titles) but overall this feels like a solid template for the rest of the franchise. I liked…

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