Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ocean's Eleven 2001

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Mar 2025

  one of the many reasons this movie is amazing, and indicative of the devil in the details approach: it always kills me that soderbergh brought the production to chicago to shoot a 90 second sequence. he didn't have to do that! but he DID. and he's got Damon doing a Pickpocket homage on the brown line (although really it's the orange line). shoutout library-state/van buren stop, shoutout emmets pub (1996-2022), although some haters might suggest - more realistically? - that they move next door to Richard's Bar for the criminal ambiance

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  Once Upon a Time in the West 1968

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  the definitive 'chopped & screwed' western

Popular reviews

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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2022

  I have a theory about how the heist film - once a bastion of cinematic creativity and an outlet for socio-political anger - has all but died in the 21st century (because of liquid modernity and neoliberalism and cowardly filmmakers) so it makes sense that something like this, a bonafide adventure-process film (a marriage of heist film syntax and eco-terror semantics) that’s full of actual/relevant rage would hit the spot for me, it’s all that and more, the clever flashback…

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  Car Wash 1976

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Oct 2020 1

  conceived as a high concept riff on nashville by a music biz pr man, given soul by norman whitfield, jokes by joel schumacher, and feeling and movement by milwaukee's own michael schultz, to say nothing of the ridiculous cast, the film was largely unappreciated in its time except by the french, who screened it in competition at cannes for a jury headed by rossellini, and extremely under-appreciated after its time, relegated to the dvd bargain bin as soundtracksploitation, except the…