Movie fanatic who inevitably veers into TV, music and anything pop culture at any given moment too.
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HEIST turns 25 today.
David Mamet deliberately gave the film an almost timeless look, avoiding contemporary cars, colourful costumes and anything that would pin the story to a specific year. He wanted it to feel like a classic Warner Bros. film noir.
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FIRST LOOK: Here are a few first shots from The Take, a new thriller from Netflix featuring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson & Daisy Edgar-Jones. The story here follows a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief tangled in a deadly, non-linear game of cons and double-crosses. Out January 17th. Added to the @letterboxd watchlist.
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This week @FanaticReel gives his thoughts on #Wicker, @bwilkins45 catches up with #YouCanSeeEverything and the two are then joined by @Penserga25 to talk #GodzillaMinusZero : podbean.com/eas/pb-pcwyu-1ba…
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Two years ago, voters powered Trump to the political comeback of the century. On Tuesday, they rejected him comprehensively.
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RECTIFY (2013–2016) is a masterpiece that never found the audience it deserved. Aden Young gives an extraordinary performance as a man trying to rebuild his life after 19 years on death row. Patient, deeply moving storytelling that stays with you long after the final episode.
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T2 TRAINSPOTTING is a sequel about the one thing the original couldn’t prepare its characters for: getting older. Boyle brings them back to the places and memories that defined their youth, only to confront them with the reality that they can’t go back.
What sequels released 15 or more years after the original were actually GOOD?
The ones that managed to recapture what made the first film special without feeling like an unnecessary cash grab.
A few examples that come to mind are 28 YEARS LATER, DOCTOR SLEEP, TOP GUN: MAVERICK and BLADE RUNNER 2049.
What other long-delayed sequels genuinely delivered?
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SPOTLIGHT was released 11 years ago today.
During research, the filmmakers uncovered an earlier Boston Globe story about abusive priests that the newspaper had buried in the 1990s. The discovery became part of the film.
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#Arsenal have seven games in three weeks immediately after the international break, including Newcastle, Tottenham and Brentford away, and City and Real Madrid at home, with Bukayo Saka out. A two week rest for Noni Madueke could be a godsend for us, and extra motivation for him.
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They Live (1988)
Genius and kind of very relevant to what is happening today with all our technology controlling us.
Another Carpenter masterpiece with an extremely unique casting choice as the lead that worked beyond anyone's expectations.
Carpenter casting then Well Known WWF Wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper as his leading man was a ballsy choice but it paid off.
The Writing, Direction and casting of this film was all top shelf.
This was another Carpenter Classic I would see on DVD for the first time in the 2000's. These are the type of films I had heard of but could never get my hands on a VHS copy to watch and they never played on TV where I lived either.
This film has become so prophetic in so many ways. It has also added so much praise to the legacies of both Carpenter and Piper. This film really proved Piper was a talented actor and not just a wrestler. He had range.
I Literally cannot believe how great this film is.
Ranking: 10/10 📽️🎞️🍿
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He protected Italian cuisine is what he did.
He was a brave Italian chef.
And in this house, he's a hero.
End of story
Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
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Nicolas Cage in Pig was special. It’s a performance more people should remember. Why? Because it completely flipped Cage-based expectations on its head. The loud, over-the-top "classic Nic Cage" acting style that defined basically his entire career is absent in this film. Here, he gives a performance that was incredibly subdued. It speaks to Cage’s range, which I’m learning is deeper than I thought.
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During The Gene Hackman HOF Episode on @TheBigPic, Tracy Letts told a hilarious story about how Ben Stiller supposedly approached Gene Hackman on the set of the Royal Tenenbaums and told Hackman how much The Poseidon Adventure meant to him- only for Hackman to respond that it was “just a money gig”. Utterly hilarious. @BenStiller I hate to put you on the spot like this, but do you have any good stories about working with Hackman you’d maybe feel comfortable sharing? I only ask because The HOF Hackman episode has me missing this man more than ever.
