Scott Heisel

Scott Heisel

I used to write about music for a living. Now I write about films for fun.

Favorite films

  • That Thing You Do!
  • High Fidelity
  • The Big Lebowski
  • UHF

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  • Barbie

    ★★★½

  • Fast X

    ★★★★

  • BlackBerry

    ★★★½

  • Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed

    ★★★

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  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★½

    I don't know about you, but I feel the sudden urge to buy a Chevrolet-brand automobile.

  • Fast X

    Fast X

    ★★★★

    Best one since Fast 6. Momoa is INCREDIBLE in this thing. Also, why is the drummer from Twenty One Pilots randomly in this movie for 10 seconds?!?

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  • Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    ★★★★

    'Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero' doesn't bury the lede: The first minute of the movie tells you that Tim Taylor, Brainiac's mercurial lead singer, died in a car accident in May 1997, at the exact moment the band were set to make the jump to a major label and — potentially — change the face of music. (Whether or not that would have *really* happened is up for debate, because we were less than a year from nü-metal and boy bands…

  • Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything

    Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything

    ★★★

    It’s not his Pinkerton but it’s not his Pacific Daydream either. It’s more like his Make Believe: Older, wiser, nicer and relatively defanged, but there are some great moments.