Mikey Flixx

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

Favorite films

  • Fanny and Alexander
  • Cold War
  • Come and See
  • The Last Temptation of Christ

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  • The Expendables 2

    ★★

  • Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

  • Commando

    ★★★★

  • The Creator

    ★★★

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  • The Expendables 2

    The Expendables 2

    ★★

    What is it with Hollywood and it's dubious stance on the glories of the mining industry?
    First there was "Temple Of Doom" then "A View To A Kill" and now this scurrilous slab of slander.
    Honestly, the mining company here are woefully misrepresented as villains and cads.
    Thankfully Sly deals to their Head of HR JCVD in a necessarily brutish consultation involving chunky chains and a dose of strangulation.
    Better than "E1" but still a bloody dreadful waste of a classic action cast.

  • Stop Making Sense

    Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

    An absolutely majestic, joyous experience seeing this in the cinema for the 40th Anniversary. Everything here is on fire, from the youth and dynamics of Byrne and The Heads to the immaculate foot-step dancing of Tina Weymouth, the pure energy of singers Lynn Mabry and Edhna Holt and that sensational suit clearly borrowed for the evening from Jiminy Glick.
    What really struck me this time round is just how beautifully cut this film is. Unlike so much cutting which revolves…

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  • BEEF

    BEEF

    ★★★★★

    "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

    ★★★½

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