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Jurassic Park 1993
Just a perfect example of blockbuster event cinema, and somehow most of the effects still hold up better than many modern £350,000,000 tentpole releases 32 years later.
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A Night to Remember 1958
None of the overblown spectacle or melodramatic romance of Cameron's film and is all the better for it as it sets it apart as a tense, bleak and infuriating recounting of a real life tragedy.
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Strange Darling 2023
"SHOT ENTIRELY ON 35MM FILM"
If ever a film managed to damn itself by telling on itself in the first frame, it's Strange Darling with this title card.
Neither the audacious brilliant new horror movie it's hailed as on one side, nor the purely hateful misogynistic screed other reviews claim it to be, Strange Darling takes a solid concept for a lean and nasty genre/trope bending thriller and pollutes the waters with problematic rough sex games and loses focus by…
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Saturn 3 1980
Inoffensive enough rainy Sunday afternoon sci-fi nonsense. Much like The Black Hole it was made in 1980 but has a strictly mid-70s pre-Star Wars sensibility about it, only with nominally more mild nudity and gore. Notionally toys with themes of male insecurities on aging and replacement; Crusty Kirk Douglas fearing being replaced by a younger Harvey Keitel. The unhinged younger man himself fearing being replaced by the horny self-aware killer robot that has learned from his worst excesses.
Keitel is…
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