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The Producers 1967
Very amusing! Between its extravagant characters, near the knuckle humour and a plot centred on a harebrained "get rich quick" scheme this feels like a natural precursor of sorts to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, to the point where I'm a little surprised that McElhenney and Co haven't directly used this premise or parodied it in one of their episodes. That said, I do kind of wish The Producers had a little more bite to it - Zero Mostel and…
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The Conversation 1974
"He'd kill us if he got the chance".
An engaging neo-noir mystery on just like a fundamental narrative level all by itself, but what really makes The Conversation stick in the mind longer than it otherwise might've is the deeply eerie and uneasy atmosphere that director Francis Ford Coppola establishes early on and maintains throughout, to the point where come the closing scenes you feel just as claustrophobic and paranoid as main character Harry Caul does. I really loved Gene…
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Casablanca 1942
All I really knew about Casablanca going in were a handful of quotes and the fact that it's often considered to be one of the best films ever made, a reputation that I was for some reason surprised to find out it absolutely earns. This is comfortably my favourite of the three Humphrey Bogart films I've now seen, both a sweepingly romantic tale in which idealism defeats cynicism and also a deeply political film about neutrality in evil times, the…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
This fucking rules? I'd heard reports of things like "clearly compromised vision" and "blatantly being written while it was being filmed" but IMO this is a far more cohesive movie - narratively, thematically and maybe most importantly aesthetically - than it is being given credit for in some quarters. That isn't to say it's without issue (it's shaggier than a dogs back end and there are points where the pacing does suffer for it) but ultimately any problems I had…
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