Patrick Wright

Patrick Wright

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Favorite films

  • The Fabelmans
  • Ed Wood
  • The Dirties
  • Living in Oblivion

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  • Coldblooded

    ★★★★½

  • When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood

  • Revenge of Billy the Kid

    ★★

  • The Hellbenders

    ★★★★

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Coldblooded
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Learning that this is the progeny of an OG Simpsons writer really puts the dead-pan humor into context here, and explains the deceitful cleverness behind what at first appears to be a flippantly gruesome crime comedy. While this is a romantic comedy about a freshly-hired hitman falling in love, it's also still a movie about the type of guy who realizes he's capable of killing, and good at it to boot. While the humor and romance work wonders, they're really…

Revenge of Billy the Kid
★★ Watched

Lol rancid one note gross-out anti-art ala the provocateur cinema of Troma, John Waters or early-eighties New York sleazecore, transposed to The Moon and The Sledgehammer-style British countryside and featuring a giant animatronic goat-human hybrid monster puppet that looks an awful lot like the Devil (not that the filmmakers are clever enough to do anything with that), but never as crazy as any of that sounds. Not funny enough for note, not outrageous or repellent enough for note, no memorable…

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Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
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Utterly disturbing to watch this man’s physical, social and mental health deteriorate over the course of 56 minutes. A haunting portrait of a man obsessed with combatting incombatable forces, be they a political system rigged against him and his people or the apathetic violence of nature and the onward march of time. Jesus Christ.