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A Welcome Home Christmas 2020
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Before I mix it up with the other dozen Christmas TV movies showing this week, I wanted to highlight A Welcome Home Christmas, shown this morning, as having being particularly amusing with a mind-bending turn into magical realism at the end. It is not really unique in anything that occurs in it, but I think it shows that after years of these films that we are reaching an interesting point where now that all of the standard…
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Death Proof 2007
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...With Death Proof there is the pleasure there of the Convoy/Telefon references and that wonderful first 'hang out' half of the film with the four (actually five) charismatic women on a night out which leads to an astonishingly nasty climax (only made all the more brutal by doing it over an over again from each separate but equally doomed perspective), before we get to that somewhat more underwhelming 'revenge' second half with much less likable victims-turned-aggressors that…
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Billy Elliot 2000
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I have issues with this film. One the one hand I think all of the performances in this film are great, nuanced and committed. Yet on the other I really dislike the themes of this film, feeling them quite disingenuous and much too pat in their outcomes. Deep conservatism wrapped in the crowd friendly veneer of liberalism.
Everything is set up as a form of rhetoric, but it is one that I don't particularly buy as an either/or thing. We…
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Night Will Fall 2014
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A difficult film, and not just to watch. This is all about the filming of the discovery and liberation of the concentration camps as the Allies moved across Nazi occupied territory. The first half of the film is interesting but plays relatively straight as a documentary, dealing with the shock of witnessing the horrors and including contemporary (or near contemporary) interviews with either the liberators or those inside the camp. This includes a couple of 'then and now' moments of…
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