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Local Legends: Bloodbath! 2024
i'm afraid to write anything about this one for fear of matt farley seeing it and conducting a statement analysis
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Cover Up 1983
two new wave legends (Claude Brasseur and Jean-Claude Brialy) play two different kinds of dirty cops (the extralegal truth-seeker and the corrupt truth-denier) investigating the assassination of a well-known business lawyer that (you guessed it) goes all the way to the top, with a wickedly funny Manchette (and others) script and brililant central performance by Brasseur, full of chainsmoking and drinking and cut rate Dirty Harry bravado as he melts down for 103 minutes
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline 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
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…
