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The Incredibles (2004)

Meet the Parrs, a family of superheroes.

Filmmaker(s): Brad Bird

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

26 Nov The Incredibles (2004)

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Pixar is Invincible movies are about other movies. Most simply quote them, and most of these are bad. Some are very clever quoters, like Tarantino. But still mere quoters. A few weeks ago, I saw “Van Helsing” which impressed the daylights out of me. It...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2004, p2004

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

There was nothing to hold onto - except each other.

Filmmaker(s): Don Siegel

Science Fiction

Horror

Thriller

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

26 Nov Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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<strong>Pods, Plots and Plodders in a while Hollywood produces a movie that decades later gets adopted by American industrialised secondary education. That’s because teachers confuse various notions of ideas and think that movies are a great teaching tool. So to teach the evils of...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 1950s, f1956, p2005

Cube Zero (2004)

Every nightmare has a beginning.

Filmmaker(s): Ernie Barbarash

Mystery

Science Fiction

Thriller

A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.

26 Nov Cube Zero (2004)

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Watchers was one of the enthusiasts of the original. It seemed a clever solution to one of filmdoms most persistent challenges: how to stage drama. Noir is our most basic cinematic model. The core of noir is a universe where capricious fate toys with human destiny...

Published November 26, 2022

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Be Cool (2005)

Everyone is looking for the next big hit.

Filmmaker(s): F. Gary Gray

Comedy

Crime

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.

26 Nov Be Cool (2005)

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Acting Cool are born into the doom of being actors. If we are lucky we discover who we are but until then we go through a process of acting a role. Some movies play with this idea, and “Get Shorty” was one of the most...

Published November 26, 2022

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The Auteur Theory (1999)

Sex. Lies. Filmmaking.

Filmmaker(s): Evan Oppenheimer

Thriller

Comedy

Mystery

At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.

26 Nov The Auteur Theory (1999)

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Murderous am deep into a study for a book on folding in film. "Folding" is a general term for various types of self reference, awareness, self-creation and reflection. The very idea behind my study is that this is a very useful thing to understand and...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 1990s, f1999, p2003

Auto Focus (2002)

A day without sex is a day wasted.

Filmmaker(s): Paul Schrader

Crime

Drama

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

26 Nov Auto Focus (2002)

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Soldiering, Winking, Filming Schrader simultaneously fascinates and repels me. That’s because he has such intelligent ideas for films, and then makes then in such a pedestrian fashion the inspiration is all but trod away. And his ideas are so very clever in addition to being intelligently...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2002, p2003

Murder She Said (1961)

See the strange case of the strangler-killer on the night express!

Filmmaker(s): George Pollock

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

26 Nov Murder She Said (1961)

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Tumbling Down history of introspection in film starts with clever mystery writers. Then when talkies fell on us there was a huge experimental breeding ground for techniques that worked. By the 40s that chapter was all over and noir was incubated. Agatha Christie played a central...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 1960s, f1961, p2015

Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

Filmmaker(s): Lou Antonio

Crime

Mystery

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

26 Nov Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

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Suchet Sachet Suffers new batch of old TeeVee Christie adaptations have become available on DVD. I’ve been marching through them valiantly, looking for anything of value. Here it is. This one is good. The story on which it is based is one of Christie’s more interesting...

Published November 26, 2022

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Tagged: 1980s, f1985, p2009

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

They stole his future. Now he's taking it back.

Filmmaker(s): George Nolfi

Science Fiction

Thriller

Romance

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

25 Nov The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

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Two Worlds live in two worlds with usually hidden doors between. One world is unexpectedly complex, powerful and cosmic in an apparently demented way. The second world we have to put up with. It is a world of rote mechanics and faux imagination. That first...

Published November 25, 2022

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Tagged: 2010s, f2011, p2011

Poirot: Dumb Witness (1966)

An elderly woman confides to Poirot that she fears one of her relatives is trying to kill her for her money. He persuades her to disinherit her heirs, but she is murdered anyway.

25 Nov Poirot: Dumb Witness (1966)

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Script Mysteries Watching these Suchet versions of Poirot is a real adventure. Following the tradition set by the BBC, each episode has a different adapter and director. The idea is that it is supposed to keep things fresh. After all, the selling points are the...

Published November 25, 2022

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Tagged: 1960s, f1966, p2005