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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: King of Blackmailers (1980)
Filmmaker(s): Igor Maslennikov
Mystery
TV Movie
Crime
Adventure

Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer.

19 Sep

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Europe in Disguise is a Russian TV production, closely following the Conan Doyle stories. Comments that I have seen accept it as a good version, mostly on the basis of the characterisations. But I find it dreadful, and credit two influences. The first is my understanding...


Published September 19, 2022
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China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
The deadliest crossroad.
Filmmaker(s): Monte Hellman
Action
Western

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

19 Sep

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Whoring and Teaching so we have it: arguably the last spaghetti western. Wonderfully photographed. Well acted. This time around what we get is an erotic western. Our hard boiled hero is a gunslinger as usual but good hearted enough to not kill his mark simply...


Published September 19, 2022
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Kate (2021)
There's no time for mercy.
Filmmaker(s): Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Action

A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.

19 Sep

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Western Appropriation a mess. Looks like the Wick movies are dragging a huge part of the industry behind tough guys and modern gunfight choreography. Here and in ‘Nobody’ the formula is three big set pieces strung together by trusted tropes. This one is more offensive —...


Published September 19, 2022
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Zero Effect (1998)
The world's most private detective.
Filmmaker(s): Jake Kasdan
Comedy
Crime
Drama

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

19 Sep

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Son of What are only a few ways into a story. One of these is to embrace the narrator and carry the viewer through their eyes and the engagement of the world that gives us love. Here, Kasdan does this while referencing Holmes, where this...


Published September 19, 2022
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Moonfall (2022)
Humanity will face the dark side of the Moon.
Filmmaker(s): Roland Emmerich
Science Fiction
Adventure
Action

A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

17 Sep

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Cluelessness like what Emmerich does with the camera; he is closer to dePalma than Bay, so I’ll watch his stuff. But he is clearly in the Bay character universe where manly heroes work on cars, scientists are always baffled, the military is feckless, and even...


Published September 17, 2022
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Rain Man (1988)
A journey through understanding and fellowship.
Filmmaker(s): Barry Levinson
Drama

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

11 Sep

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Drizzle this was new, few of us knew of neurodiverse folks. So the setup as a road movie where our bad soul gets redeemed worked. If you allow the genre. We were all amazed as Hoffman’s portrayal. Neither is unusual now, which I suppose is...


Published September 11, 2022
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Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Filmmaker(s): Tristram Powell
Mystery
Crime

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

11 Sep

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Useless Cushions could have put up with the silly detectives and their dated witticisms. The similarly dated use of technology… I could have overlooked the cheapness throughout, if they had only preserved the core element of a Christie mystery: we have to be surprised in...


Published September 11, 2022
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Ten Little Indians (1989)
Filmmaker(s): Alan Birkinshaw
Crime
Thriller
Mystery

An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.

11 Sep

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Camp think making a Christie film must be hard, because so seldom does it work. For me, the metric is very simple. We need to be allowed to speculate against multiple impossibilities. Many folks will be exposed for hidden, possibly relevant qualities. What makes Christie work...


Published September 11, 2022
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Lightyear (2022)
Infinity awaits.
Filmmaker(s): Angus MacLane
Animation
Science Fiction
Family
Adventure

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

14 Aug

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Andy’s World first thing — and the most important thing — a film does is establish where it will sit between your mind and the worlds you know. Often there is some clever interplay between what it is directly, and what games it will...


Published August 14, 2022
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Inside the Room (1935)
Filmmaker(s): Leslie S. Hiscott
Thriller
Crime

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

14 Aug

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Clean on Top, Dirty on Bottom are several events in US history that damaged the nation. We will not recover from the Civil War for generations if current politics remain, as they surely will. Prohibition and abortion. Wars. Book burnings. Among these is the Hayes act....


Published August 14, 2022
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