Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  L.A. Confidential 1997

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  I saw this film years ago and just rewatched it with my family. This is a beautiful LA film that forgoes all the usual self aggrandizing “Hollywood” and “Cool LA” mythos usually associated with self referential LA films. It’s a  brilliantly complex script and wonderfully conflicted characters. Young Russel Crow, Ed Pierce, Kim Basinger, and maybe especially Kevin Spacey (goddammit, Kevin!) are all wonderful. Sure, maybe he’s a bad guy but goddamn that bad guy can act! 🖤

  Also Danny Devito and my Hollywood YMCA gym buddy James Cromwell turn in strong performances!

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  The French Connection 1971

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  I forgot what a downer this movie is. The 70’s were when the “no happy endings” films became popular

Popular reviews

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  Hereditary 2018

  ½ Watched 05 Dec 2021

  If all you want is to be horrified this is your film. It’s a horrifying, derivative, spasmodic, crap piece of film making that at best shocks and at worst feels like a Rob Zombie brand fuck you to the viewer.  This movie showed me nothing compelling or new. 

  Hats off to a brilliant performance by Tony Colette!!! 🤘👏👏👏🖤🖤🫀🫀 sadly one performance does not a movie make

  Rubbish

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  Lady Snowblood 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Nov 2024

  Fuck yes!

  A beautifully photographed Japanese “Lady Vengeance” film shot in 70’s “spoitation” style about a woman born for the sole purpose of killing her family’s killers one by one with an umbrella sword, gallons of high pressure bright red blood,  a soundtrack that goes from Spaghetti Western to jarring silence, and exposition scenes in manga illustrations! Who the fuck needs Quentin Tarantino?! 😆

  Just kidding love you Quentin… but this movie…