Perhaps not my favourite Hitchcock, but still a very good film.
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The "dying relative, dysfunctional family" trope gets another go-round with a good crew of actors.
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Wikipedia lists this as a "Finnish horror-dark fantasy-thriller" movie. Seems like a lot to pack into one movie, but they left out "comedy" which is another major element.
read more'Run Silent, Run Deep' - Movie Review
A good Second World War submarine warfare movie with a U.S. sub taking on a notoriously effective Japanese destroyer in a lethal cat-and-mouse game.
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An hour and a half of the most beautiful images ever committed to film.
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A Harold Lloyd classic movie that's been so strip-mined of jokes nothing in it looks original.
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A fascinating movie about the accelerated evolution of digital film production (and the concomitant death of photochemical film).
read more'Castles in the Sky' - Movie Review
A fascinating technical achievement (the invention of radar) doesn't entirely translate into "drama."
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The short version: "another James Bond film." For all the good and mostly bad that implies.
read more'The Jacket' - Movie Review
A strange and little-known thriller with the excellent Adrien Brody as a disoriented war vet, highly recommended (but only for its target audience ...).
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