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A Fistful of Dollars 1964
It's been eight years since we last watched all three of these, and in my mind I had that overall image of Eastwood's Man With No Name as a kind of stoic, hard-bitten killer - but I'd totally forgotten how laugh-out-loud funny he can be in Fistful?
Man sees one injustice and decides to become a kind of frontier trickster gremlin, him and the local cranks playing bloody hijinks on a town until everyone but the barkeeps and gravediggers are…
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No Other Land 2024
I mean, it's brutal.
Brutal to see the cowardice behind the naked, generational violence perpetrated by an army and masked settlers; a cowardice so deep-rooted that even tier-one operator cosplayers armed with heavy weaponry cower from women and children. Brutal to see Basel still running the same protests as his father 20 years on, still fighting the same struggle for the right to a home and school, and having to confront whether he'll have to step back for the same…
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Furious 7 2015
Feels very much like Fast 4 as another transition into a new "mode" of what these films are, but without the confidence to really execute on it. Kurt Russel showing up with the Splinter Cell war room was a clear sign that we're in a videogame now, and that carries through so much of this; the pacing is messy, fights feel weightless, and even the non-vfx scenes have this saturated glossy unreality to them.
They really want you to visit…
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Dog Day Afternoon 1975
I guess I put this on knowing that it was a piece of queer history, but it's also quietly just an incredible heist movie? A Coen-esque farce of a robbery that unravels and becomes politicised in real-time, reflected in a crowd that cheers and turns and splinters as more context is made known. Young Al Pacino is such a chaotic little freak for so much of the film, and then he busts out a scene that pierces your heart.
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