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Dead of Night 1945
Fun payoff/framing device, one absolute classic story, two near classics… and two kinda meh ones.
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Saturday Night 2024
Splits the difference between Altman knockoff and mostly good episode of Studio 60. Saturday Night assumes you know enough about the show it is mythologizing- but not enough that you don’t mind the level of contrivance, cut corners and outright fiction it leans on particularly in the third act. A lot of genuinely compelling storylines get totally streamlined and caricatured, leaving most future-stars and familiar faces as mere cameos. I did think they handled Chevy Chase’s arc the best -…
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Snake Eyes 1998
A silly, sweaty, pulpy neo-noir that acts as a kaleidoscope of boomer experiences - allusions to the JFK and RFK assassinations, Muhammad Ali, and the neocon approach to the war on terror, seen through the eyes of an extremely clintonian protagonist. In other words a fun (if not entirely worthy) 90s era companion film to De Palma’s classic, Blow Out
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