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Author Archives: Ross Birks
Media Diet 2018
January1. Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017)2. Bright (2017)3. Red Spirit Lake (1993)4. Dave Chappelle: Equanimity (2017)5. Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation (2017)6. Sleep Has Her House (2017)7. The Pied Piper (1986)8. David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017)9. Justice League … Continue reading
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Media Diet 2019
January1. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)2. Shirkers (2018)3. The Old Man & the Gun (2018)4. The Favourite (2018)5. Home Again (2017)6. The Week Of (2018)7. The Land of Steady Habits (2018)8. The Witch in the Window (2018)9. Stan & Ollie (2018)10. … Continue reading
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Media Diet 2020
January1. National Treasure (2004)2. Model Shop (1969)3. Her Name Was Lisa (1979)4. Atlantics (2019)5. Bliss (2019)6. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)7. On Dangerous Ground (1951)8. Prime Evil (1988)9. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)10. Lurkers (1988)11. Born Yesterday … Continue reading
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Media Diet 2013
January: #1 Berberian Sound Studio (2012) #2 Cloud Atlas (2012) #3 The Imposter (2012) #4 Django Unchained (2012) #5 Lawless (2012) #6 This Is 40 (2012) #7 Compliance (2012) #8 Lincoln (2012) #9 Zero Dark Thirty (2012) #10 Pitch Perfect … Continue reading
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Media Diet 2012
January: #1 Always (1989) Dir. Steven Spielberg #2 Cedar Rapids (2011) Dir. Miguel Arteta #3 A Perfect World (1993) Dir. Clint Eastwood #4 Stagecoach (1939) Dir. John Ford #5 The Double Life of Véronique (1991) Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski #6 Stake Land (2010) Dir. Jim Mickle #7 Bad Teacher (2011) Dir. Jake Kasdan #8 The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Dir. Clint Eastwood #9 Ray (2004) Dir. Taylor Hackford #10 The … Continue reading
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Halloween Night, 1963 – Halloween (1978)
Halloween is my favourite horror movie and one of my ten favourite movies of all time. It’s a film I saw at a very young age and one I’m always returning to, wether it be shoving the DVD on for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, Halloween, John Carpenter, Movie Moments, pause
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Michael and Sollozzo – The Godfather (1972)
There’s not much left to be said about The Godfather. It’s one of cinema’s timeless masterpieces that will surely outlive us all. It’s hard to pick a favourite moment from a movie so rife with memorable sequences but the one … Continue reading
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Tagged 1972, Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola, pause, The Godfather
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Club Fever – Collateral (2004)
Michael Mann’s 2004 movie Collateral is a fantastic little thriller and one I find myself returning to time and time again. I love the set-up and the two lead performances by Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise as well as Mann’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, Collateral, Jamie Foxx, Michael Mann, Tom Cruise
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Claudia Smiles – Magnolia (1999)
Steven Spielberg once named the final shot of the Star Child in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as the most uplifting and hopeful image in cinema history. I don’t know what my pick for that title would be but … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, John C. Reilly, Magnolia, Melora Walters, Paul Thomas Anderson
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"This Film Should Be Played Loud" 