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The Wrong Man 1956
A methodically paced procedural telling the true story of an innocent man arrested for assault and burglary. Very stripped back, filled with long stretches without music, and built around Henry Fonda playing an everyman. His calmness and goodness came across at times almost passive, made me a bit angry at him - c’mon man, the cops, the witnesses, the system, they’re screwing you! Fight back! Get pissed! Might have been Hitchcock’s point.
I did find the pace a little monotone,…
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Star Trek: First Contact 1996
Not really a Trekkie and this may have suffered from expectations set too high - didn’t escape the feel of being TV for me.
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Life After Fighting 2024
Some classic martial arts movie tropes in the opening stretches of this, nice early flashes of action and bully stare-downs and a fantastic mid-movie fight with proper action storytelling and an ebb and flow to it. Gets a little wobbly with the sex trafficking plot and some characters making questionable decisions but brings it home with a brutal final forty minutes of one against a sea of goons. Choreography was class - awesome mix of styles shot cleanly and given…
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Rebel Ridge 2024
Was so looking forward to this. New Saulnier; neo-western one man against a corrupt small town; Don Johnson! And it delivers. The tension ratchets and ratchets, Aaron Pierre has real presence, and the action, when it comes, crunches. Great genre filmmaking.
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