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  A Few Good Men 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  A Few Good Men (1992)

  Rob Reiner directs Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore in this top end military courtroom drama from an early screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.

  The glorious full stop to Reiner’s unmatched 7 movie uninterrupted ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ golden run as a director; one of the very finest courtroom dramas. His gift for combining accessible and warm, starry Americana with hard edged themes continues here with his helming of Sorkin’s verbally showy debut. All the hyper knowledgable walking…

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  The Faculty 1998

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  The Faculty (1998)

  Robert Rodriguez directs Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood and Laura Harris in this teen sci-fi horror mash-up where a group of high schoolers realise their school is being taken over by alien bodysnatcher parasites.

  This was right up my alley as a teen. A movie referencing pretty much everything I was into from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to The Terminator. It essentially is an unashamed blend of The Breakfast Club and The Thing. I knew the horror…

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  Lethal Weapon 2 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Nov 2024

  Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
  Originally Posted on www.bcmoviediary.com

  
  Richard Donner directs Mel Gibson, Donald Glover and Joe Pesci in this buddy cop action comedy sequel where Riggs & Murtagh take on some vile, racist, drug dealing South African diplomats.

  “The Magic Is Back!” So heralded the poster and it didn’t lie. Gibson and Glover’s unmatchable onscreen chemistry mixed with Donner’s impeccable blockbuster instinct. Forget the shoestring plot, this is a pearl necklace of stand-out bits strung together on the goodwill of…

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  The Red Shoes 1948

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Feb 2024

  The Red Shoes (1948)
  Originally Posted on www.bcmoviediary.com

  Powell and Pressburger direct Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer and Marius Goring in this technicolor look at life in the ballet.

  An absolute classic – one of those film that on the surface seems some bright, light and chocolate box confection but swirls with grim undercurrents about artistic comittment, authorial control and poisonous infatuation. Walbrook is fantastic as the ballet director whose ideals for his art (and those talented enough to meet his…