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Category Archives: Rewatch
Tideland (2005)
The deranged lovechild of Lewis Carroll, Gummo, Nekromantik and Malick nobody asked for. Endlessly icky and puzzling but one of those hard Gilliam tonal swings you wouldn’t want to be without. The mix of innocence and perversion soon becomes tiresome but there are … Continue reading
Snatch (2002)
Probably the definitive distillation of Guy Ritchie’s brand. Overly stylish and cocky yet totally controlled and entertaining. The attempt at zingy dialogue is certainly too clever for its own good but Ritchie does have an ear for rhythm. The constant … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Pitt, Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, Snatch, Vinnie Jones
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
This has certainly lost a lot of its spark in the twenty years since its release, diluted no doubt by the gamut of imitators which continue to plague the UK genre and STV markets in its wake. Still, Lock, Stock remains an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1998, Dexter Fletcher, Guy Ritchie, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick Moran, Sting, Vinnie Jones
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Candyman (1992)
This is a far more grotesque and elegantly told work than I initially gave it credit for. For as much as we recognise Candyman as part of the Clive Barker canon, it’s actually writer/director Bernard Rose who’s responsible for the film’s most … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, Bernard Rose, Philip Glass, Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkley
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The Canyons (2013)
Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis’ Lifestyles of the Rich and Dangerous. An underrated and frequently misunderstood exercise in surfaces and cosmetics. The Canyons feels like an episode of an LA reality TV show as seen through a shattered black mirror. Everything looks … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, bret easton ellis, james deen, lindsay lohan, paul schrader
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Batman Returns (1992)
A masked ball-cum-circus/superhero freak show contained within a Halloween snow globe and wrapped in a black Christmas ribbon. One of the great examples of 90s studio/auteur hubris, which seemed to be a totally misjudged disaster upon release but now looks … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, Christopher Walken, Danny DeVito, Danny Elfman, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Burton
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Batman (1989)
You don’t need me to tell you that comic book movies are a dime a dozen at the moment, but none of them look like Tim Burton’s Batman. Overwhelmingly physical in its environs and effects and visually uncomplicated; edited cleanly and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1989, Danny Elfman, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Michael Keaton, Pat Hingle, Tim Burton
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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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