Forget the hokey acting ('staged' by a pre-Frankenstein James Whale), and the melodramatic twaddle holding the picture together. That didn't even wow people in 1930 (though Harlow became a star). Focus instead on the true subject matter of the movie: real-life set pieces that make Christopher Nolan look like a pussy. The final dogfight is rightly celebrated, but the most remarkable scene involves the downing of a zeppelin, and the sequence alone cost more than most movies at the time…
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Demons 1985
The opening act of "Demons" is done so well that you can just about forgive it for flatlining into a by-the-numbers Infected movie. An early scene of disparate sets of characters in an old movie theatre watching a scary movie is like the horror equivalent of "Cinema Paradiso". The horrors in the cinema are reflected by the horrors on screen; when someone is sure she hears a real scream, she is told 'It's just the Dolby system.'…
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Pig 2021
I don’t know that there’s an actor alive who could bring the weight to this movie that Nicolas Cage does. I watched it in an audience of 700 people, and when he responds to a question about his pet pig by simply saying, “I love her,” not one of those 700 people laughed. That’s what you call conviction. The movie itself is an intriguing curio: “John Wick” meets “Big Night.”
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Wake in Fright 1971
If you have seen this movie, no matter how long ago, it probably occupies a particular place in your filmgoing memory, like an exotic flavour you once tried and can never quite forget because the sensation was so singular (my own limited experience does not, alas, inform me whether kangaroo testicles qualify as an analogy). It's a pungent movie; it's soaked in sweat and beer and piss and has been left out in the unforgiving Australian sun,…
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