Michael Scrutchin

Michael Scrutchin

"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun. --Ash (Bruce Campbell), Army of Darkness"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Biography:
Michael is a writer and film buff from Houston, Texas. In early 2000 he started Flipside Movie Emporium (www.flipsidemovies.com), a film website that covers current Hollywood films as well as the indies and B-movies that don't get any respect in mainstream media. A former member of the Online Film Critics Society (accepted in October 2001), he resigned in March 2004 for not keeping up with the society's required review quota (although he intends to return to the OFCS in the near future when he's back up to speed). He also writes screenplays and short stories, some of which are available at cinemascribe.com, his personal site.
Favorites:
  • The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
  • Brief Encounter (Lean, 1946)
  • Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962)
  • Carrie (De Palma, 1976)
  • City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
  • Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
  • Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
  • Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993)
  • Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
  • The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
  • Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
  • Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
  • My Life to Live (Godard, 1962)
  • Nashville (Altman, 1975)
  • Playtime (Tati, 1967)
  • Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
  • Say Anything (Crowe, 1989)
  • The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
  • A Simple Plan (Raimi, 1998)
  • Something Wild (Demme, 1986)
  • Stolen Kisses (Truffaut, 1968)
  • Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Craven, 1994)
  • Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
  • Written on the Wind (Sirk, 1956)
  • Publications:
    Flipside Movie Emporium
    Total Reviews:
    166
    Total QuickRatings:
    2
    Location:
    Pearland, Texas

    Quick Ratings

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    Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
    A+ 94% Pulp Fiction (1994) " One of the 10 best films of the 1990s." — Flipside Movie Emporium
    Posted Sep 25, 2002
    A 59% Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) " A heartbreaking and terrifying tour de force that ranks among David Lynch's finest work." — Flipside Movie Emporium
    Posted Jul 29, 2002
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