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Recent reviews

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  On the Beach 1959

  Watched 25 Jan 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Atomic Attack 1954

  Watched 08 Feb 2025

  📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3HOaU9E5U

  - The unexpected origin story of Walter Matthau's heel-turn as Dr. Groeteschele in FAIL-SAFE
  - Watched as part of ongoing research/ writing (frustratingly at the same time) on TESTAMENT, in many ways its spiritual successor
  - Particularly interesting how both films essentially adopt the form of an epistolary, with structuring emphasis on times and dates
  - Also notable that both films, adapting stories by female authors, were produced directly for television, broadcast straight into the households that they imagine the radioactive spoliation of...

Popular reviews

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  Sea of Blood 1969

  Watched 10 May 2021

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9EYMyBW7U

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  Looking for Eric 2009

  Watched 14 Jul 2024

  📽️: Amazon Prime (on the train from Cambridge, trying to get home in time for the final)

  I thought, maybe, if somehow Ken Loach can deliver this coterie of misfits from their grim circumstances to the most magical (and unearned) climax, to this flightiest of all fancies, maybe, just maaaybe Southgate could unwind the 58 years of hurt against Spain and deliver the absolute motherload of all jouissance tonight

  but then a Kyle Walker disasterclass in the second-half on our…