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Play Dirty
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Mar13

Play Dirty

“War is a criminal business; I fight it with criminals.” From Emil Jannings winning the first every best actor Oscar in 1928 for The Last Command through to the recent success of Dunkirk, war pictures have maintained their currency. Of course, their popularity has ebbed and flowed...

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Movies of the Year 2017
  • Movies of the Year
Jan01

Movies of the Year 2017

Plenty of themes at play this year: imprisonment; forbidden love; heroism in combat. 2017 was a decent year for grown-up comic book adaptations and it was also a year where, bizarrely, John Denver’s Take Me Home (Country Roads) played a crucial role in the plot of not one but two...

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The Split
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Nov17

The Split

Author Donald Westlake’s two greatest creations are criminals. Both are fundamentally honest and supremely meticulous planners but that’s where the similarities end. Parker is focused, laconic and won’t hesitate to kill on his way to his goal, whereas Dortmunder is a...

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Cohen and Tate
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Sep27

Cohen and Tate

Eric Red hit Hollywood with a bang in the mid-eighties. His screenplays for The Hitcher and Near Dark were both highly acclaimed so it’s no surprise that his next opportunity should be to direct another of his scripts. This came in the form of Cohen and Tate, a tense thriller following...

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Silent Running
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Sep08

Silent Running

There’s a scene early on in Silent Running that nicely encapsulates the vibe the film. The technicians aboard the USS Valley Forge, one of four spaceships orbiting Saturn, are having lunch as they await an imminent radio order from Earth. Three of the spacemen are eating freeze dried...

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The Thin Blue Line
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Sep06

The Thin Blue Line

Murder is, by definition, no laughing matter. So it’s disconcerting to hear the details of a particularly sanguinary killing, the roadside shooting of a Texas policeman, recalled and recounted by an array of jolly smiling faces. The Thin Blue Line was filmed in 1987 and revisits a...

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The Badlanders
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Aug30

The Badlanders

“Personally I don’t trust Mexis.” “Personally I do. I’ve even forgotten the Alamo.” Boy, oh boy. Delmer Daves sure liked to subvert the stereotypes of the Western, didn’t he? After adapting Hamlet for the oater crowd with Jubal and showing that native...

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Movies of the Year 2016
  • Movies of the Year
Dec25

Movies of the Year 2016

The cop working his last case before retirement, the white colonist making arrogant demands of natives, the recently divorced private investigator caught in a tangled web, the superhero fighting the big bad guy and saving his girl. 2016 cinema certainly trod familiar paths but it was also...

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The House on Sorority Row
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Sep02

The House on Sorority Row

That Mark Rosman worked prior to this picture with Brian De Palma should come as no surprise. The House on Sorority Row owes as much to that director’s work as it does to the Gialli that made such an impact on Italian cinema in the 70s and 80s. All the tropes are present: nubile young...

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Where The Sidewalk Ends
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Aug13

Where The Sidewalk Ends

As Richard Nixon, Bob Halderman and every other politician caught in the wake of the Watergate break-in can tell you, it’s often not the original crime that will do you in but rather the cover-up. It’s a lesson that Mark Dixon, the cop at the heart of Where The Sidewalk Ends would...

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It Always Rains on Sunday
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Aug06

It Always Rains on Sunday

The first time Rose spies the handsome Tommy Swann in It Always Rains on Sunday she’s smitten. She’s working the bar in an East End London boozer when the saloon doors open and Tommy sweeps in wearing a double-breasted suit, a hat tilted just so and a cigarette dangling from his...

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