21.7.19

Jackie Brown

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Jackie Brown  is the first Tarantino film I watched, so perhaps that makes me soft on it, but I do agree with Mark Kermode that it is by far...
19.7.19

The Terminator

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Although it spawned a science-fiction franchise, this is just as much a slasher film inspired by John Carpenter's Halloween . It even im...
7.7.19

Spider-Man: Far From Home

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Funnily enough before watching this I was listening to a cheerful podcast about how deepfakes can be used maliciously to provoke nuclear war...
6.7.19

Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una Donna)

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Ideas in previous Antonioni films reappear here as echoes of past achievements. Perhaps the problem is Tomás Milián, who just isn't as e...
16.6.19

13 Assassins

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Miike is only partly teasing when he says he wants 13 Assassins  – best known for an exceedingly bloody 45 minute final faceoff between the ...

The Warriors

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"There really isn't a lot to think about so keep it moving, keep it moving" was the instruction the director Walter Hill gave ...
15.6.19

The Piano

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Jane Campion originally wanted a bleaker ending for the film – where Ada follows her piano into the sea and drowns. The echo of that ending ...
8.6.19

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"'Praise You' spoke to the sense, both frivolous and zen, that prevailed in the late 1990s: nothing 'mattered'. There w...
29.5.19

Enter the Void

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I saw this as part of the Kubrick season at the BFI – 2001 being a big influence on Gaspar Noé and this film in particular. I’m not sure wh...