Mikey Flixx

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Dedicated film fiend for over 50 years. I like them still, cool and mildly off putting.

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Favorite films

  • Fanny and Alexander
  • Umberto D.
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • The Untouchables

    ★★★★½

  • I Walk Alone

    ★★★½

  • Raising Cain

    ★★★★

  • Scarface

    ★★★★

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  • The Untouchables

    The Untouchables 1987

    ★★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

    So much of what DeNiro is doing here is a practice run for Max Cady in '91.

    That visual spectacle that everyone nods toward DePalma is present here in multipliers, the Morricone score is so ludicrously triumphant at times I'm worried the high strings will snap, the giggling joy of Connery just helping out the top half, superior leading man et al before crumbling away in the latter and the extraordinary, spontaneous bonafide classic sequence that is The Baby Carriage…

  • I Walk Alone

    I Walk Alone 1947

    ★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

    Burt and Kirk. Frankie and Dink. Not best of bosom buddies as you'd imagine but here they are at each other's throats, snarling and smirking and (in Burt's case) seething like it's an Olympic event. Burt (Frankie) is mighty pissed that he's just done 14 years in the can for Kirk (Dink) and now when he comes by Kirk's new club - The Regent - expecting a half-share of what he missed out on all those years, his casual brooding…

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  • BEEF

    BEEF 2023

    ★★★★★ Watched 07 Apr 2023 5

    "Even Buddha was a prince once. He had to have stuff so he had something to renounce"

  • Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

    Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon 2021

    ★★★½ Watched 25 Sep 2022 5

    It's like someone asked Sean Baker to remake "Carrie

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  • Blow Out
  • Carrie
  • Phantom of the Paradise
  • Body Double
  • Scarface

DePalma ranked - DeMented, DeCeptive, DeRanged 14 films

  • Out of the Past
  • Too Late for Tears
  • Gun Crazy
  • Pickup on South Street
  • The Big Combo

Noirsterpiece 14 films

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  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Anora
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • The Substance
  • The First Omen

2024 Films Of The Year 20 films

  • StageFright
  • Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
  • Oddity
  • Hagazussa
  • Pieces

GLOBAL SPOOKTOBER 28 films

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