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High Noon 1952
Do not forsake me, o my darlin'...
Not as cowardly as I’d once read. Now, I’m not John Wayne, so I don’t mean “cowardly” in reference to the film or its authors, but instead to the behaviour of the townsfolk, whom I’d always assumed scattered away like bugs at the mention of the incoming trouble on the noon train. That’s not strictly speaking true, as much more than a simple conflict of “fight or flight” there exists a streak of…
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The Rule of Jenny Pen 2024
Horrors are about manipulating emotions, and so it’s almost a wonder that there aren’t more of them like this: set in nursing homes, with a cast of the put-upon elderly (who form the holy trinity of fast-track film feeling with “dogs” and “children”). It also doesn’t hurt that such a setting is the ultimate in real life terror, each of us terrified of a future in which we live out our twilight in a place so bleak, sterile, and regimented…
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The Monkey 2025
You know that thing online, where it’s like “what you think twenty years ago was” and it’s a picture of the seventies, and then underneath it says “what twenty years ago actually was” and it’s the late nineties? That’s what this film is like - set in 1999 (and last year), but dressed entirely like it’s 1978. Just… pick one? That it’s also set largely during the Kerrang! years, and there’s only one article of clothing featuring flames, is a…
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Twisters 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Two recommended additions, which would have been responsible for an extra half star each, to stretch a darn entertaining movie into a perfect summer blockbuster:
1) Marshall Riggs should have been whisked away by a tornado from the grounds of another discounted property
2) With apologies to Steven Spielberg: just let them freaking kiss
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