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Scarecrow 1973
I don't know why I missed this off my Al Pacino binge last year; I was overdue for revisiting it, and damn, it was good to see him again, and what a beautiful, tragi-comic thing Scarecrow is.
He and Hackman are sublime foils for each other as modern-day drifters, each fresh off their respective hiatuses from society in an America not only different from what they knew but one in which the romantic ideal of riding the rails is dead…
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Daredevil 2003
I have a lasting nostalgic affection for this film, but it really isn't great.
On the upside, it has a distinct aesthetic with gritty texture and visual flair, is nicely pulpy and knows what it is. I will always enjoy the kinetic music video sensibility with all its varying framerates and inventive CGI.
Affleck and Favreau bounce well off each other, and the casting generally works in favour of the source material (at least on paper). Shots borrowed from panels…Translated from by
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All This Time 2025
Romford Horror Festival screening.
My girlfriend was this movie's (award-winning!) Production Designer and it was a special experience to appreciate all the wonderful details she brought to each frame on the big screen. Colour me proud. I also had a lovely time meeting some of the other crew and cast at this screening.
All This Time is an impressive low-budget chiller with a clever (ostensible) time-loop device on which the narrative hinges. Despite the inherently repetitive nature of its storytelling,…
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
Just shit. Egregiously unfunny with as much charm and fascination as a crash on the motorway.
Can't well enough be left alone?The cosy, self-contained worlds of the originals are long gone. They're as dead as Peter Sallis, and we're now happily accepting an 'up-to-date' yet oh-so-out-of-date set of clunky, ultra-twee gross incongruities masquerading as a movie that add up to nothing less than a prime example of complete cultural decay.
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