Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Waking Ned (1998 Kirk Jones & scr)

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Charming Irish comedy with a shade of Local Hero  to it, about a village who pretend their lottery winning member is still alive. Ian Bannen...

Atlanta - Robbin' Season (2018 Donald Glover)

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Is 'Florida Man' going to turn out to be real? After seeing the Invisible Car, you can't be sure! After trading $4k for a trade ...

Leave Her To Heaven (1945 John Stahl)

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"First his brother, and now his son..." We think we know what happened at the end  but the disc buggered up in the last 15 minutes...
Monday, 21 August 2023

River of No Return (1954 Otto Preminger)

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Scared of cutting in CinemaScope, Preminger keeps things in long takes, which is good. Mitchum (usually line perfect) would have had no prob...
Sunday, 20 August 2023

World on Fire - Season 2 (2023 Writer Peter Bowker)

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The somewhat delayed continuing adventures of a disparate group in WW2.  Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Zofia Wichlacz, Julia Brown, Ewa...

Red Dog (2011 Kriv Stenders)

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Based on Louis De Berniere's collection of stories about Australia's apocryphal dog, who roamed the North-East in the 1970s. Good sc...

The Parallax View (1974 Alan J Pakula)

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Notice how high billed Gordon Willis is for his cinematography - his dark compositions perfectly match the dark goings-on, and Pakula likes ...
Saturday, 19 August 2023

Something's Gotta Give (2003 Nancy Meyers & scr)

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There's something suspect in all this, the talk of empowered women over 50 frightening off men - then when Diane's rejected she keep...

Michael Inside (2017 Frank Berry & scr)

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Already on probation, 18 year old Michael is arrested for a small amount of cocaine (€2k worth) and sent to prison - ridiculous. There of co...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

Atlanta - Season 1 (2016 Donald Glover)

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A slightly messy 10 x 25m series for FX in which we vaguely follow the management of rapper 'Paper  Boi' Brian Tyree Henry by his co...
Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Get Shorty (1995 Barry Sonnenfeld)

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Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's twisty 1990 story shows how far the TV series diverged from it. John Travolta is super-...

Escape From Alcatraz (1979 Don Siegel & prod)

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In many ways, the original Shawshank Redemption  (King's novella was published three years later). Siegel and writer Richard Tuggle ramp...

On Dangerous Ground (1951 Nicholas Ray & co-scr)

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Ray and A.I. Bezzerides adapted Gerald Butler novel, creating what starts as a noir ish police psychological drama and turns into something ...

Star Trek: Charlie X (1966 Lawrence Dobkin)

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Interesting early episode (the second broadcast) in which a teenager exhibits uncontrollable power over Kirk and the Starship Enterprise, co...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Same Time Next Year (1978 Robert Mulligan)

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Bernard Slade adapted his own play which debuted in 1975 initially with Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn, who reprised her performance for t...

Get Shorty - Season 3 (2019 Davey Holmes)

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Miles - a brilliant Chris O'Dowd - is released from prison and gets a job as a producer's assistant for the bastard who was responsi...
Monday, 14 August 2023

Sneakers (1992 Phil Alden Robinson & co-scr)

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Despite the 'high tech' fixings (which we'd now see as 'low tech') you'd basically file this under 'crime caper ...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017 Martin McDonagh)

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Can't believe it didn't win the Best Screenplay Oscar ( Get Out  was better?? I don't think so), though did the BAFTA, and Best ...