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Nightmare Alley – Not for the recent quitter.
Guillermo Del Toro is no stranger to monsters, but in his latest film they take a more subtle form. Rather than a mythical creature, it is the people in Nightmare Alley that are the monstrosity. In the first scene we meet Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), though for a moment I swore it was Indiana Jones. Stanton, a…
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RoboCop (1987) – They’ll fix you. They fix everything.
Over the course of the past two years, I have noticed myself drifting and my intake of information becoming more passive. If I was watching a film, I was also checking my phone; If I was talking to someone, I was also thinking about work. The idea of being present felt daunting and focusing was…
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Léon: The Professional – get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Last night I revisited Léon: The Professional on a dear friends request. I’m pretty obsessed with Luc Besson’s more prominent film (imo), The Fifth Element, so it wasn’t a particularly hard sell. Lately, I’ve also been enjoying watching old movies that could not be made today and this certainly fits that bill. Léon follows a…
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The Beatles: Get Back – I’ll take 36 more hours please.
When I was wee, my mum would take my brother and I to a movie on Christmas night. We would see whatever 3+ hour blockbuster was capping the year off, e.g., Lord of the Rings, Titanic. It was my favourite part of the day. Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back gave me that feeling this year.…
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The Unforgivable – where do you stand on Sandra Bullock? (Riddled with spoilers.)
Here we are, the first musings on a Sandra Bullock film. The Unforgivable is a 2021 Netflix feature based on a 2009 British miniseries, Unforgiven. Bullock plays Ruth Slater (a name that for unrelated reasons causes me some grief). Ruth is an ex-convict re-entering society after 20 years behind bars for murdering a cop. Let…
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True Story – not really, but kinda.
I felt a bit nauseous after watching the new Netflix limited series, True Story, starring Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes. Hart plays Kid, a Philly comedian who has struck it big. Doesn’t sound like a stretch? As the title would beg you to believe, there are elements of this story that are based in reality.…