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Star Trek: Insurrection
Not bad enough to hate, but something to be said for watching it when too ill to think. Pleasantly unchallenging. →
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Porco Rosso
My favourite Ghibli, this time watched with the French language track. Jean Reno as Rosso is as perfect as you might expect. →
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Intermezzo
Beautiful ‘30s film in which a man leaves his wife and children for Ingrid Bergman, because of course he does. Why wouldn’t he? →
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Quite possibly the best worst film I’ve ever seen. Objectively awful, yet totally absorbing. →
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Attack on Titan Part 1
A faithful adaptation of the anime: tedious, dull characters, stilted dialogue, but with a smidgen of decent action. →
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Jaws
Every time I watch Jaws I think “I won’t jump at the head in the boat” and every goddamn time, I jump. The film is basically magic. →
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Romeo + Juliet
Fantastic adaptation that I’ve seen dozens of times. Great soundtrack as well, as explored here. →
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Sexy Beast
All about Ben Kingsley and his terrifying physical performance. Even saying ‘no’ is dreadful. →
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
One of those classic ‘50s westerns that now feel turgid and stagey to me. Is it good? Bad? No idea. →
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Malena
An entire WW2-era Sicilian town loses its mind when Monica Bellucci moves in. Seemed plausible. →
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LFO
Solid bit of Scandinavian sci-fi about a man who can control others with sound. Dryly funny, creepy, weird. Worth checking out. →
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Ace in the Hole
Fiercely cynical noir, back from when actors didn’t so much act as simply bulge their eyes & sweat. →
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Watership Down
A film all children should watch, to teach them valuable lessons such as “how to choke a rabbit” and “do rabbits float?” →
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Bone Tomahawk
Superb minimalist Western, darkly funny, also gruesome & horrific. Some self-consciousness about its own racism comes through. →
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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
A bad Jane Austen pastiche, a bad horror film and a bad comedy. Really quite a comprehensive failure. →
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Triple 9
Tediously masculine. →
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Jurassic Park
A thrilling, terrifying warning from Spielberg and Crichton to avoid single points of failure in your IT staffing solution. →
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Out of the Past
Outstanding 40s noir in which Robert Mitchum plays a man cursed to never remove his trench coat. →
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Jason Bourne
A promising first draft of a film. Hopefully they can improve the plot, screenplay and character motivations before release. →
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To Live and Die in LA
Solid, trashy eighties noir with William Dafoe when he looked like a rubbery CGI interpretation of his younger self. →