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Category Archives: Rewatch
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
This rewatch has been a long time coming. Zero Dark Thirty is one of those movies that is so dense with information that it’s difficult to penetrate and engage with, especially on first viewing. It’s a slow-burning procedural which spans a decade, … Continue reading
Slice (2018)
Slice attempts to draw a high-concept universe that never really comes together. It feels indebted to EC comics as much as it does 80s horror-comedies like Ghostbusters which it cribs from freely. Weirdly though, it has a very cheap aesthetic with make-up effects … Continue reading
Predator 2 (1990)
A lurid buffet of scraps and bad habits left over from the 80s jacked up and saturated like a crazy Frank Miller splash page. The cast makes it feel like Predator 2 unfolds in some kind of Richard Donner/James Cameron shared universe … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990, Bill Paxton, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Robert Davi, Stephen Hopkins
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Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton’s Nashville. Lovably zany, eye-poppingly colourful and animated by a pretty insane ensemble cast of 90s big hitters and Burton regulars. You even get two Jack Nicholsons for the price of one. I love all the throwback flourishes like the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Lisa Marie, Martin Short, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tim Burton, Tom Jones
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Conrad Hall’s cinematography…jaw-dropping. The precision in the images and visual story is intoxicating. This is celluloid as ash, the grain glazing everything over in a frosty, funeral-like haze. It’s moody and painterly. A gangster B-pic as seen by Edward Hopper. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2002, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Paul Newman, Sam mendes, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hanks
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American Beauty (1999)
Oh boy does a lot of this not hold up but that Conrad Hall lighting is still absolutely gorgeous. Very much a 1999 movie that I once considered one of the Greatest Movies of All Time. Sadly it established a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, Allison janey, Annette Bening, Chris Cooper, Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Sam mendes, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
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Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
This spends a lot of its meandering running time avoiding being a TCM movie altogether. There’s so much ambling around in the woods which never seem as expansive or cavernous enough to justify all the characters constantly splitting apart and … Continue reading
