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Rewatched..... Joy Division (2007, Grant Gee) After reading Hooky's book Unknown Pleasures, I felt this needed a revisit. Sobering, if slightly precious...unlike 24 Hour Party People (2002, Micheal Winterbottom) Which is a laugh, but not exactly factually "correct". Though Considine's take on Rob Gretton is a hoot... Me FWWM blu came so that will be going on soon.
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War on Everyone (2016) I've read some hate from viewers, but I really enjoyed this. ***1/2 out of ***** Now You See Me (2013) *** out of *****
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I watched GHOSTS OF MARS yesterday-better than I remembered. THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS-A refreshing take on the battered to death zombie film,the central performance from the young girl is terrific. Cat lovers beware...... REVENGE OF THE BLOOD BEAST-RARO have done a cracking job with this. Not in the same league as Witchfinder or The Sorcerers,there is early indications of Reeve's superb talent,especially in the opening shots of the bleak countryside.Almost as if a warm up excercise for the later Price classic. Apparently Price said to Reeves...'Do you know how many films I've made young man? Ninety four. How many have you made?' To which Reeves replied.... 'Three good ones.....!'
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T2: Trainspotting Mark Renton returns to an Edinburgh transforming into somewhere unfamiliar as the past is slowly being torn down in the name of Gentrification. As he reunites with sick boy and spud the past begins to creep back and haunts him as he slips back into old habits. Initially the film threw me a little as it lacked the pace and forward momentum of the first movie. Slowly it dawned on me that the queasy sense of nostalgia for places and people long gone is intentional and the film is drawing me into the head space of the central characters. Certainly as a 37 year old who remembers the film coming out the first time around I felt a strange connection to the film that I suspect 20 year old's who might connect with the original probably would not. As the film gradually became a tale of escaping addiction through creativity it somehow manages to be about the psychological place that Irvine welsh himself must have been in when he initially wrote the book. I was especially pleased they included Trainspotting at leith central station at a place in the film that brought some genuine pathos and humanity to Begbie. Older geezers like me who have been around a bit will find a lot here in a film where the same creative team are older wiser and probably more talented but the younger audience might need to wait 20 years. The soundtrack is superb and it has some of the best composed shots I've seen in a film for a while. |
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In A Valley of Violence. Ethan Hawke is a loner, bar his loyal dog, who drifts into a rundown little town in the Old West where a jackass picks a fight with him for no apparent reason, only to come off the worse for it. The jackass turns out to be the son of the town Marshal (John Travolta) who sends him on his way with no real hard feelings. But said jackass just can't let it be, and together with his mates ambush Hawke, kill his dog and leave him for dead. As anyone who's seen John Wick will attest, bad idea. Soon Hawke is on his way back to town, and he's not leaving until everyone involved is dead - including the Marshal if he gets in his way... Karen Gillan co-stars in this largely unremarkable but still pretty watchable and entertaining enough Western revenge thriller.
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Caddyshack (1980) **** out of ***** The Pit (1981) *** out of *****
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