It (2017)
Sep11

It (2017)

Everybody Floats: It (2017)       Let’s see. Put it this way: You know how, in the movie The Shining, Jack Nicholson’s character doesn’t look as if he’s playing with a full deck even in the opening interview scene? Remember the eyebrows arched like crazy and that feral-looking grin?  Like a guy trying his damnedest to look at least half-sane and not doing a very good job of it? In the novel you have this build-up where...

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Detroit (2017)
Sep07

Detroit (2017)

‘It’s a War Zone Out There…’ Detroit (2017)     I think that we can safely call Kathryn Bigelow a talented painter, producer and even occasional actress.  And we can certainly call her an always interesting and quite brilliant film director.  What we can’t call her is a prolific one. To my astonishment and mumbles of ‘where did the years go’?  I’ve just discovered that it is a full three decades since she nailed me to the cinema...

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