Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  My Ain Folk 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

  rethinking my plans to move to independent scotland after this one, bleak!

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  My Childhood 1972

  ★★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

  made in 1972, set in 1945, somehow feels like it was shot in the mid 1800s

Popular reviews

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  How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

  ★★★★ 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

  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…