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The Pawnbroker https://tinyurl.com/268rwxlp The Pawnbroker used to be a prestige movie, both when it came out in 1964 an...
13/10/2025

The Pawnbroker https://tinyurl.com/268rwxlp
The Pawnbroker used to be a prestige movie, both when it came out in 1964 and for decades afterwards. It’s lost some of its sheen over the years, for a variety of reasons. Films referencing the Holocaust are no longer as scarce as they wer...

September 5 https://tinyurl.com/23kpqjus Cool rather than hot, and about events not as they happened but as they were re...
12/10/2025

September 5 https://tinyurl.com/23kpqjus
Cool rather than hot, and about events not as they happened but as they were reported, September 5 is the story behind the story, of how a sports team from ABC TV found themselves at the cutting edge of a major news event at the 1972 Olymp...

Eolomea https://tinyurl.com/263pd3ar Considering it’s sci-fi from behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War,...
11/10/2025

Eolomea https://tinyurl.com/263pd3ar
Considering it’s sci-fi from behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War, Eolomea is an unexpectedly bright, colourful, even countercultural space adventure. Some of it is still brilliant, some of it pretty dated. But it’s entire...

Highest 2 Lowest https://tinyurl.com/2dns32vj The least satisfying Spike Lee film I’ve ever seen, Highest 2 Lowest at le...
10/10/2025

Highest 2 Lowest https://tinyurl.com/2dns32vj
The least satisfying Spike Lee film I’ve ever seen, Highest 2 Lowest at least has the excuse that it’s Spike Lee in gun for hire mode. Walter Salles, Mike Nicholls and Martin Scorsese were all lined up to direct at various points. It’s mys...

Riptide aka Une Si Jolie Petite Plage https://tinyurl.com/25nt5sp4 Seedy atmosphere is Riptide's USP. So seedy is it, in...
09/10/2025

Riptide aka Une Si Jolie Petite Plage https://tinyurl.com/25nt5sp4
Seedy atmosphere is Riptide's USP. So seedy is it, in fact, that when Une Si Jolie Petite Plage (its original title) debuted in 1949 it was felt necessary to add a little disclaimer up front for French audiences in an attempt to head off c...

Echo Valley https://tinyurl.com/24q2m6m5 Constantly on the move, always trying new things, Sydney Sweeney’s advance on t...
08/10/2025

Echo Valley https://tinyurl.com/24q2m6m5
Constantly on the move, always trying new things, Sydney Sweeney’s advance on the Oscars probably won’t be helped by Echo Valley – she’s just not in it enough – but it won’t be hindered either. And she’s surrounded by the sort of actor the...

The Decameron https://tinyurl.com/29fs2kmn “The dirtiest great book in the Western canon,” is how the New Yorker once de...
07/10/2025

The Decameron https://tinyurl.com/29fs2kmn
“The dirtiest great book in the Western canon,” is how the New Yorker once described Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Which made it a perfect fit for Pier Paolo Pasolini when he set out on his Trilogy of Life, three films based on old texts. The...

Sorry, Baby https://tinyurl.com/262ocx56 Sorry, Baby is the sort of film that’s hard to write about. Which is irritating...
06/10/2025

Sorry, Baby https://tinyurl.com/262ocx56
Sorry, Baby is the sort of film that’s hard to write about. Which is irritating if writing about it is exactly what you want to do, but it possibly makes for a more rewarding viewing experience. Without giving the whole game away I can say...

So Close https://tinyurl.com/25nynovc Men are largely an irrelevance in So Close, Corey Yuen’s “girls with guns” actione...
05/10/2025

So Close https://tinyurl.com/25nynovc
Men are largely an irrelevance in So Close, Corey Yuen’s “girls with guns” actioner made in 2002 just as Hong Kong was exiting its glory period.

I prompted Google in AI mode to list the key characteristics of the “girls with guns” genre...

Juliet & Romeo https://tinyurl.com/2cy35hyg Juliet & Romeo is the sort of film that schoolteachers wary about introducin...
04/10/2025

Juliet & Romeo https://tinyurl.com/2cy35hyg
Juliet & Romeo is the sort of film that schoolteachers wary about introducing Shakespeare to 16 year olds show to the kids. Sexy young things have key roles, the original language survives only as a vestige and there are songs that use...

The Outfit https://tinyurl.com/28a7gntq 1970s neo-noir doesn't begin and end with Chinatown and The Long Goodbye. Here, ...
03/10/2025

The Outfit https://tinyurl.com/28a7gntq
1970s neo-noir doesn't begin and end with Chinatown and The Long Goodbye. Here, for instance, is The Outfit, director John Flynn’s lean adaptation of one of the 24 novels Donald Westlake wrote under his Richard Stark pseudonym. Many Stark ...

Elio https://tinyurl.com/2xna79oe In a developed world of plunging birth rates, here’s Elio, a Pixar animation for sad o...
02/10/2025

Elio https://tinyurl.com/2xna79oe
In a developed world of plunging birth rates, here’s Elio, a Pixar animation for sad only children. An ET-flavoured tale flipped on its head and with Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the mix, it also doffs its hat to the...

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