Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Be Cool 2005

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  A dramatically inert adaptation of an admittedly mediocre Elmore Leonard novel. The scene where they try to redo the Pulp Fiction Travolta/Thurman dance at a Black Eyed Peas concert should be enshrined in the hall of fame of bad decisions. I did enjoy that that the film climaxed at the MTV VMAs and treated it like it was the most prestigious honor a musician could receive. Also, I LOVED that Fred Durst showed up in the final scene, did nothing, and said nothing. A true Y2K era time capsule.

• 

  Drive 2011

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  The first time I saw this I got so excited that I ran to a sports bar on the edge of Pittsburgh, drank 7 beers, and woke up the next day with a scorpion leather jacket in my Amazon cart.

  It still rocks.

Popular reviews

• 

  Oppenheimer 2023

  ½ Watched 26 Mar 2024

  Now I have become asleep, taker of naps.

  Morally impoverished claptrap.

• 

  Troubling Love 1995

  ★★★★ Watched 23 Oct 2022

  The uncle screaming that somebody should get the death penalty because the funicular is running late is the most Italian shit I've ever seen.

Following