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Stone Cold Dead 1979

★★★ Watched 16 Aug, 2017

Falls somewhere on the crime thriller scuzziness spectrum between DIRTY HARRY and FEAR CITY, with a couple modest stabs at TAXI DRIVERishness and proto-Miami Vicesqueness, but this is a bit filmatistically cheaper and sloppier than those entries in my favorite genre.

Irresistible title/synopsis for gullible scumbags like me, obviously, and I'm happy to report that that awesome title is not a total tease for an otherwise incompetent movie; I've been burned before, but this one, albeit not a major hidden…
The Fly 1986

★★★★½ Rewatched 11 Aug, 2017

One of the most ickily difficult-to-watch and most profoundly sad films ever, yet there is something in every scene that makes me laugh more than a dental surgery patient in a tickle fight in the front row at a Chris Rock set.

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American Sniper 2014

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

As a soldier, one of the first things at which I excelled, according to the infallible eye of my drill sergeants, was marching and marching movements. As a white guy and someone whose idea of nightmare is dancing in public, I’m a proud member of Rhythmless Nation, but I can twist & turn on command at perfect stiff right angles in combat boots with the best of them, apparently. This, uh, skill led me to be selected for local funeral detail…
Body Double 1984

★★★★ Rewatched 29 May, 2013 5

Fuck you, purists.
This is better than Hitchcock.