Dan McCoy

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Favorite films

  • North by Northwest
  • Animal Crackers
  • The Third Man
  • The Thing

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  • Splitsville

    ★★★½

  • Communion

    ★★★½

  • How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

    ★★★½

  • Ladies First

    ★★½

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Splitsville
★★★½ Watched

Kind of peaks early with that amazing comedy fight sequence, but it was atill nice to watch a small, funny comedy about people. 

I have a friend who hated this movie because she found the two guys gross and didn't believe either of them could be with these women -- and I understand why that would rankle, after years of schlubby-to-middling guys cast opposite goddesses in movies and TV, but I think here that's absolutely part of the point. These…

Communion
★★★½ Watched

Christopher Walken is much like Nic Cage, in that both of them are capable of great subtlety, but in the popular imagination they're defined by their looniest choices. If the "shouting the alphabet" scene from Vampire's Kiss is the epitome of wackadoo Cage (totally justified by the material, btw), then Communion should be in Walken's highlight reel. 

Which is again not to say that he's bad -- he's always emotionally engaged with his character -- it's just that the movie's…

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Fear
★★★½ Watched

This movie makes a good point. You shouldn’t have sex with Mark Wahlberg.