Tom
The Bike-Riders (2024) – Review
Jeff Nichols is a pronounced figure in American film and has for my money made thus far four very g…
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Warren Beatty’s Misfire of all Misfires; Bulworth (1998, Written by Beatty and Jeffrey Pikser)
Perhaps there is no bigger swing in Beatty’s career than Bulworth. Now of course scope wise one doe…
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Hit Man (2024) – Review
There are star vehicles that are designed to show off variety, then there are star vehicles designe…
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Halloween – THE WHOLE SAGA (Part One)
The Halloween series is one of the most convoluted and messy horror franchises we have ever had. Wh…
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The Way We Were (1973) – Barbara, Robert and Sydney
Sydney Pollack, working with Robert Redford once more came in 1973 to adapt to the screen the beaut…
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Cruising and Jade – Friedkin’s Successes and Failures in the Erotic Thriller Genre
Cruising feels in many ways like a film one must clear their throat for before talking about – no p…
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Oliver Stone’s Nixon, His Mirror to JFK.
Whereas as much as JFK is a film about political and governmental mistrust and conspiracy as it is …
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Blazing Saddles (1974) – 50 Years On
In 1974, as aforementioned, Mel Brooks released two comedic masterpieces with his frequent and grea…
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Shcrader’s American Gigolo – A Statement on a Decade and a Statement of Intent
There is a mission about Paul Schrader’s film American Gigolo, just as there is a mission about it’…
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Dead Poets Society (1989) - The Beauty and Pain of Coming of Age
In the 80’s boom of 50’s set nostalgia films there was more than a few that were set inside the pr…
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Robert Altman’s The Player (1992)
Hollywood has been making movies about itself nearly since the beginning, and for that matter Holly…
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“The American Dream is a product”: Comparing Arthur Miller and David Mamet’s portrayal of the salesmen of said Dream.
“Happiness comes not in fulfilling the dream but in ever believing in it and reaching for it"…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) – Review
In many ways it is hard of course to follow on from what many rightly in my opinion refer to as one…
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Giving Up Berlin - Comparing the presentation and dissection of America and the nuclear family in Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and William’s “Cat on a hot tin roof”
Within both Edward Albee’s “ Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and Tennessee William’s “ Cat on…
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) – Review
After the incredibly promising Saint Maud, whatever Rose Glass was to do next was always going to b…
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