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A Hard Day's Night 1964
‘No, actually, we’re just good friends’
A Hard Day’s Night kicks off with its most iconic scene straight away: its wonderful opening in which the Fab Four - Popes John, Paul, George and Ringo - run away from a crowd of screaming, roaring fangirls and hop onto a train leaving Marylebone station (my seventeenth favourite spot on the Monopoly board) with Paul’s creepy, eccentric, thin-as-a-twig grandfather in tow. It’s one of the most ubiquitous images of The Beatles ever, certainly…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
‘Yesterday belongs to us, Doctor Jones…’
James Mangold, director of Logan and Ford vs Ferrari, had the difficult job of landing the Indiana Jones plane (which they sure as hell weren’t going to let Harrison Ford do, let me tell you) and stepping into the directorial role for the fifth and (supposedly) final film in the franchise, 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. After the poor reception of Crystal Skull, the story strays from the neatly-tied bow of Indy’s marriage…
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Challengers 2024
What a racquet!
I was interested in this film having seen the trailer all over the place in the last few months, but I’m sorry to say that outside of a couple of little laughs and some memorable choices in terms of cinematography, the rest of the film really disappointed me.
I feel like for a love triangle to work, we have to at least resonate emotionally with two of the three characters involved, and of those two characters, one…
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Romeo + Juliet 1996
‘Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your NINE LIVES!’
I don’t know if any teenager in the UK or the US learning about Shakespeare after 1996 managed to avoid watching this in a high school English or Drama class - it seems to have been a universal experience on either side of the Atlantic. I certainly was forced to watch Baz Luhrmann’s take on Romeo and Juliet at the age of fourteen. Strangely, though, while the general consensus…
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