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Tag: holiday films
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New Years Movie Rewatch Review – Bridget Jonesโs Diary
Back in the mid to late nineties there was a publishing phenomenonโฆ Helen Fielding had written a faux diary about a thirty-something singleton called Bridget Jones. Bridget Jonesโs Diaryย wentย on to become what The Guardian named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century. Inevitably, it was snapped up to become the…
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New Year Rewatch Review – Entrapment
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Youโve seen him as James Bond. Youโve seen him as a Russian submarine commander. Youโve seen him as an immortal Spaniard. Youโve seen him as kings Richard and Arthur. Youโve seen him as Indiana Jonesโ dad. Youโve seen him as dozens of other characters, but heโs always Sean Connery. That sounds like it could be…
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New Year Rewatch Review – Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard, if you havenโt already seen it, is a scathing, withering attack on the morals and mores of mid-twentieth century Hollywood. And Hollywood wasnโt best pleased. Following an advance screening for the industry bigwigs, Louis B Meyer was apoplectic and tore into director Billy Wilder thusliwiseโฆ โYou befouled your own nest. You should be…
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New Years Eve First View Movie Review: Four Rooms
Thereโs no mistakingย Four Rooms for anything other than a New Year filmโฆ it actually starts to the strains of Auld Lang Syne! Basically, Four Rooms is a quartet of stories set in the Hotel Mon Signor on New Years Eve. Each segment is directed by a different director with a, mainly, different cast. Running through…
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New Years Eve Movie Rewatch Review – Snowpiercer
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What says Happy New Year better than a nightmare vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth? How about a nightmare vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth presented by Oscar winning Korean master Bong Joon Ho? Tell you what, how about a nightmare vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth presented by soon to be Oscar winning Korean master Bong Joon…
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Itโs A Wonderful Christmas – How RunPee Rob takes in the holiday season
Weโre primarily a film based site and, sure enough, most of the articles here are related to films; new films, old favourites, comparisons of remakes, looking back and reappraising, and general opinion pieces. But the other week I wrote something that wasnโt about any particular film. Rather, it was about what goes on inside my…
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Christmas Rewatch Review – Scrooged
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Scroogedย isย A Christmas Carolย dragged kicking and screaming into the modern worldโฆ well, the late eighties anyway. Bill Murray is Frank Cross, the Scrooge character, but in this world heโs a cynical TV executive. Heโs tasked with making sure his Christmas spectacular grabs the biggest share of the audience, and he wants to do it by making…
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Christmas Rewatch Review – Lethal Weapon
What better way to start a Christmas film than with a half naked, drugged up prostitute pitching headfirst off the balcony of a tower block? If that doesnโt say festive fun and frolics, well, I donโt know what does! After allโฆ Jingle Bell Rock is playing on the sound track. Throw into the mix a…