Tag: Film Review Friday
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When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday
“I done wrestled with an alligator. That’s right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That’s bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I’m so mean I make medicine sick! Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last…
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Sleepaway Camp – Film Review Fridays
Sometimes the real horror of a scary movie isn’t the demonic plaything, the alien monster or the immortal butcher who can stand against 5 shotgun blasts to the face. Sometimes the real horror is the evil that men do. When I say that, I don’t mean getting revenge by murdering your high school bullies at…
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Scent Of A Woman – Film Review Fridays
“A very very distant second is a Ferrari. Charlie, give me your hand. This is just the start of your education, son.” – Colonel Frank Slade I can’t explain how this film found a way to my heart. Maybe I was feeling depressed when I saw it for the first time on channel GEM…
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long while I’ve considered Gene Hackman to be the greatest…
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Walk Hard – Film Review Fridays
One might consider the music biopic to be a formulaic and easy genre to produce. Of course, it’s an incredibly expensive genre, what with song licences and massive stadium sets to construct, but on paper, the structure feels incredibly similar. A music biopic will usually follow a rags-to-riches story of a famous musician who uses…
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Unbreakable – Film Review Fridays
“I’ve studied the form of comics intimately. I’ve spent a third of my life in a hospital bed… with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics are our last link… to an ancient way of passing on history. The Egyptians drew on walls. Countries all over the world still pass on knowledge through…
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Contact – Film Review Fridays
Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us… seems like an awful waste of space. Right?” Science fiction has always been the greatest medium for…
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Boy Erased – Film Review Friday
Film Review – Boy Erased Here’s a fun little anecdote to get this started: in its original book form, Boy Erased is the only text I have ever read two times in a row. As soon as I finished it for the first time I went right back to the start to read it all…
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The Dune Triple Feature (Part 1 of 2) – Film Review Fridays
Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch – by Mason Horsley ‘Dune’ historically has been a near-impossible venture for any director. Any space opera faces it’s own set of challenges that throw production into turmoil, whether it be ‘John Carter’ or ‘Star Wars’, but ‘Dune’ had been stuck in development hell for nearly 20 years before David Lynch…