An English teacher once called me “one of life’s great wafflers” and she might’ve been onto something with that…
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Gun Crazy 1950
B-movies were the warm-up act. They served their function by titillating and stimulating audiences in preparing for the main attraction. Celluloid fodder through which one could settle in, simmer down, and switch off. Pulp and camp were the worlds in which the B-pictures revelled. Their stories simple enough to intuit whenever you might enter the theatre. Characters so broad and obtuse that their intentions could be seen as easily on their faces as through their dialogue which may be drowned…
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Scrapper 2023
A story about the people who slip through the cracks of a fractured system. Social care has failed to protect 12-year-old Georgie who is left alone when her mother dies suddenly and she is left to her own devices. Lola Campbell as Georgie shoulders the narrative spectacularly, exuding a naturalism with a hint of childlike churlishness. When her estranged father played by Harris Dickinson appears, they chart their path to an uneasy reconciliation with years of absence left to untangle.…
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A Haunting in Venice 2023
Back when Branagh decided to revive Hercule Poirot, the gap in the murder mystery market was wide open. Yet just two years after his fateful and rather lacklustre adventure on the Orient Express, Poirot began to pale in comparison to the new kid on the block: Benoit Blanc. Complete with a ridiculous accent and a canny knack for unravelling plots, Daniel Craig’s detective breathed new life into a type of film that was becoming recyclable, disposable and formulaic with Kenny…
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