Silence (2016).
Two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) are told a rumour suggesting that their mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who had travelled to Japan to spread the gospel, has… Continue reading "Silence (2016)."
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The Institute by Stephen King (2019).
Author Stephen King is an institution. He’s been working for five decades, writing 61 novels, a number of short story and novella collections, memoirs, and screenplays (a total of 85 published books to date… Continue reading "The Institute by Stephen King (2019)."
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Police Story (1985).
There is a certain pleasure that comes from watching a Jackie Chan movie. There are bigger and often better action films out there and there are funnier comedies, but few… Continue reading "Police Story (1985)."
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The Big Easy (1987).
After his audacious 1983 adaptation of the 1960 Jean Luc Goddard film Breathless, (reviewed here), Jim McBride continued his exploration into the fragility of masculinity in his 1986 movie The… Continue reading "The Big Easy (1987)."
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Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 (Limited Edition) – Blu-Ray Review.
There have been many great director/actor partnerships across the history of cinema. From D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish to Scorsese and De Niro (or Scorsese and DiCaprio if you wish), every… Continue reading "Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 (Limited Edition) – Blu-Ray Review."
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Closely Watched Trains (1966).
I remember a few years ago when film critic Mark Kermode attempted to list the films with the most boring titles. This was inspired by the release of that forgettable… Continue reading "Closely Watched Trains (1966)."
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Breathless (1983).
Between 1983 and 1989 director Jim McBride made a loose trilogy of films which explored the flawed psyche of masculinity, not with introspection, naval gazing or sobriety, but in all… Continue reading "Breathless (1983)."
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Satan & Adam (2018)
Back in 1986, a young New Yorker and Princeton graduate, Adam Gussow was going through a particularly hard break-up. After getting on the train, he found himself in Harlem, not… Continue reading "Satan & Adam (2018)"
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Le Boucher (1970).
Although not something that seems in vogue a great deal today, sex and death have been frequent bed-fellows in the movies from the earliest days of cinema. The love the… Continue reading "Le Boucher (1970)."
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Pet Sematary (2019).
It’s been said that Pet Sematary was Stephen King’s ‘unfilmable’ novel. This is not because of its size and scale, like The Stand or the Dark Tower series, but because… Continue reading "Pet Sematary (2019)."