alfred hitchcock
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Liar Liar, Rear Window and Airplane! While Jim Carrey has often proved perfectly capable of giving grounded, dialled-back performances when the film called for it, this is an interesting beast – a perfectly ordinary, straightforwardly sentimental story that Carrey plays to the absolute maximum of his comic buffoonery. It’s as…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Whisky Galore and The Spy Who Loved Me I’ll generally concede that the British make great comedy, but this wasn’t it. Whisky Galore should be an anarchic good time, and is advertised as a subversive anti-authority piece, but it feels too entrenched in the sensibilities of its time to work…