James Marsh

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Favorite films

  • The Spy Who Loved Me
  • Withnail & I
  • Aliens
  • Seven Samurai

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  • Revelations

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★

  • In the Lost Lands

  • Bumpkin Soup

    ★★★

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★

    Characters who are impervious to pain, or have an exceptionally high pain threshold, have become increasingly ubiquitous in a cinematic landscape dominated by superheroes and comic-book characters like Deadpool and Wolverine.

    Similarly, with infrastructure now firmly in place in the film industry to transform the gangliest of thespians into a shredded war machine, a new subgenre built around everyday action heroes has found lasting commercial success.

    Novocaine, from directing duo Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, draws from both phenomena, presenting…

  • Divine Emanuelle

    Divine Emanuelle

    ★★★

    Watched the Fanatico cut. Definitely one of the more fun of the later entries in this franchise, but Gemser continues to appear increasingly disinterested in the whole Emanuelle saga.

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  • Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron

    ★★★★★

    Peckinpah's only war movie is also one of his best. James Coburn stars as the anti-authoritarian German sergeant, looking out for his men on the cold Eastern Front, while his imbecilic superior (Maximilian Schell) chases the elusive Iron Cross. Beautifully shot and filled with the violence and camaraderie synonymous with the director's work this rarely gets the praise it deserves as one of Hollywood's most profound meditations on the futility of war.

  • Warriors of Future

    Warriors of Future

    ★★★★

    What a relief, after something like a ten-year gestation period, Louis Koo’s hugely ambitious passion project turns out to be great fun and a bold step forward for Hong Kong cinema. It’s ludicrous sci-fi hokum but it’s made with passion by people who clearly care. CGI is legit, pace & plot are slick & coherent. Good guys are good, bad guys are bad, & the action is on point. That’ll do, Louis. That’ll do.

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