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by Oscar O’Sullivan You may notice that I have watched much, much fewer films this week than I ordinarily would. No, I have not come to my senses and found better uses for my time – a ridiculous thought. I was busy with a different but related way of wasting my time – making a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Blackhat Michael Mann’s Blackhat is probably best remembered as ‘that movie where Thor is a computer hacker’, and is one of the biggest flops of the 2010s, losing about 90 million dollars at the box office and kneecapping Hemsworth’s non-Marvel career. It also put Mann in the so-called ‘Director Jail’…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Police Story Sometimes the most difficult films to discuss are the most self-evidently brilliant. What can I say about the film that isn’t obvious just from looking at it? Directed by and starring Jackie Chan, Police Story is far from your average cop procedural. From the very first scenes it…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan The town of Horizon is burning. We’ve watched for minutes now as Native Americans descend upon the settlers and mow them down, setting every structure aflame and battering down the barricades of the last survivors. It’s brutally violent without being graphic, lighting and tasteful angles concealing gore without blunting the impacts. Families…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Eagle and The Adventures of Prince Achmed Now The Man doesn’t want you to know this, but there are actually hundreds of movies just sitting on Youtube that you can watch for free whenever you want – welcome to the world of silent cinema. I won’t pretend watching silent…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – A Matter of Life and Death You may have noticed that I already reviewed this one – it’s such an exceptional film that it needed it’s own space. If you haven’t already you can read that review here. Tuesday – Black Narcissus Another film from director duo Michael Powell and…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan The year is 1946. The Second World War is over, just about. For the last half-decade, the entire filmmaking apparatus of the western world has been devoted to one and only one type of film – the propaganda piece. Tales of national heroism and perseverance are all that can be justified under…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – His Name Was King and Joe Kidd It’s easy to be romantic about a genre when all you’ve seen of it is the best examples. Is it strictly necessary to dig into the cast-off excrement of the medium? Once in a blue moon, maybe. Even a turd can contain something…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As the 1960s drew to a close and the writing was seemingly on the wall for the Hollywood Western, there was a sense that any Western released was a farewell tour. While some directors chose to put the genre to bed with deconstructions that…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Furiosa and Hud I already reviewed Furiosa – go read that! I also watched another movie on Monday, Hud. Starring Paul Newman as the title character, this is another masterful ‘post-western’ of the 1960s, an examination of how the world just isn’t any place for that old cowboy romanticism anymore.…
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