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Random movie reckons. Mostly genre pictures, Gialli, French and Italian crime movies, horror from '30s-'60s. Occasionally going overboard in the Alt Text
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James Baldwin: His wardrobe was a form of code-switching, a sartorial dialect he adapted to navigate different worlds….a man who dressed as thoughtfully as he wrote—always intentional, always eloquent. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Accidently deleted my original post about The Order (2024) like an idiot. TLDR Jude Law is great, movie's only ok Did make me think that Imperium (2016) deserves more love, for managing to be a more exciting genre picture & a deeper dive into the ugliness of White-Supremecist Neo-Nazi ideology

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As depressing as the idea of an Amazon-helmed tsunami of Bond 'content' is, if M, Q & Moneypenny do get their own godawful spin-offs then just maybe those characters could return to being fun recurring cameos in the main Bond movies, instead of desperately trying to justify casting a Judi or a Ralph

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Devil's Partner (1961) looow budget b-movie horror Town kook sells his soul to Satan, then dies. Days later his 'nephew' arrives & brings devilish shenanigans with him. Flimsy & nothing special, but there are worse ways to spend 72 mins, & it's solidly enough made & acted for how cheap it is

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I see there's an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's 'Memory', which is comfortably in the top one bleakest books I've ever read youtu.be/Q4cf6DqIYl4?...

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The Wages of Fear (1953) Hell is a company town for Clouzot at his most misanthropic Maybe the best example of sustained tension in movie history, as four desperate men try to drive two truckfulls of unstable nitroglycerin over miles of bad roads in search of a payday to get them anywhere but there

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My 'planning to watch movies' is writing a lot of cheques lately that my 'having time to watch movies' can't cash

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