Michael Brightling

Favorite films

  • Ball of Fire
  • Prime Cut
  • The Italian Job
  • The Big Boss

All
  • The Big Boss

    ★★★★★

  • The Late Show

    ★★★½

  • Going in Style

    ★★★

  • If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

    ★★★

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Ricochet

1991

★★★★ Watched

If you see only one film this year featuring John Lithgow and Jesse Ventura having a fight with samurai swords - make it this one!

Lone Star

1996

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Where was the oscar nomination for Elizabeth Pena?

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The Hateful Eight

2015

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I feel like an outlier in that The Hateful Eight is my favourite Tarantino film. It's generally ranked towards the bottom of his filmography and gets dumped on for a variety of reasons: too talky, a waste of 70 mm, no positive characters and so on.

With all the characters stuck indoors during a snow storm, it is very talky. That's true. But it's Tarantino and there are no characters I'd rather hear speak than those from his pen. When…

Kiss of Death

1995

★★★★ Liked Watched

For a brief shining moment there was a redheaded male movie star. It was a glorious time.

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