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Locked (2025)
No escape. No mercy. Just survival.
Filmmaker(s): David Yarovesky

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

Eye Outside no value here; this comment is about a key technique, and setting aside my aversion to the acting stance that Hopkins has settled into. I don’t think it quite earns the right to be a genre, but we do have ‘containment’ films, where...


Published September 15, 2025
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Red Notice (2021)
Pro and cons.

An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

Cleopatra’s Omelet formula film with no merit whatever. Three highly paid characters more or less being themselves, which doesn’t add to much. There is some travel, and some action as per what the bosses like. Enough viewers seem to as well. Ms Gadot is pretty...


Published September 1, 2025
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Penn and Teller Get Killed (1989)
What more do you want?
Filmmaker(s): Arthur Penn

The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to kill me. It would give focus to my life, excitement. I'd be like James Bond." Twenty million people hear him. One decides to deliver a punchline he'll never forget. Made by people who thought Psycho was a comedy, Penn & Teller Get Killed (they also wrote the piece) features Caitlin Clarke as the femme fatale and David Patrick Kelly as the Edgar Allan Poe-esque nutcase with a new mission. Arthur Penn, known for hip masterpieces like Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man, directs with roller-coaster pacing and subversive intelligence.

Genuine is an absolutely unwatchable film, featuring two by then seasoned performers and directed by one of our greatest filmmakers. The basic idea is that the two magicians play tricks on each other, and toward the end you aren’t sure when dangerous things are genuine or...


Published July 29, 2025
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The 14 Amazons (1972)

The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.

Wonder Women am discovering the Shaw Brothers weighty output. I suppose this is typical: 75% fights with goofy, fakey choreography. There isn’t any wire work in this one, but some magical human bridges and the like. This time it is warrior women who by some guile...


Published July 25, 2025
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The Gamma People (1956)
Gamma-Ray Creatures Loose!
Filmmaker(s): John Gilling

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

Women, Trained story here is a bit interesting, deriving from Nazi experiments with children and indicating a trend actually well supported in the US. But the production is ho hum and it has no value for what it is. But it is an example of something...


Published July 23, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
A new era is born.
Filmmaker(s): Gareth Edwards

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.

Clones really dislike David Koepp’s work, with one exception. He seems to absorb the world of the filmmaker, and amplifies his (always his) vision. In this case, we have a few set pieces that deliver no unexpected situation whatever — just sequences of narrow escapes...


Published July 21, 2025
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Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1994)

Clive’s Drama precious thing about Christie is that she’ll give a wholly coherent narrative with some unresolved bits — a narrative if you will where we actually accomplish some of the things we do in absorbing a narrative. Then at the end of essentially all...


Published June 26, 2025
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Our lives are the sum of our choices.
Filmmaker(s): Christopher McQuarrie

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Comparative Truths live in era of extreme local situated information. Trump and his ilk exploit this model, refined by Fox News, but I think it is a set of deeper and more global effects. Here’s how it works: If you want certain elements in your...


Published June 26, 2025
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Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
The winner of this battle would be the most enormous enemy against human beings.
Filmmaker(s): Kazuki Ōmori

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.

Sexual Spies Godzilla films — the Japanese ones — are essentially social commentary and painful self-reflection embodied in beasts. So we have films about American dominance, gangsters in corporations, pollution, national friendships… This is the most complex one. The core story is a genius scientist creating...


Published June 25, 2025
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Hit Man (2023)
He's not a killer, but he can pretend.
Filmmaker(s): Richard Linklater

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Explicitness Kills I have learned about effective introspection in film is that the least acknowledged is the most effective. Two extremes may be “Under the Skin” or “Pillow Book” or even “In the Mood for Love” at one successful end and this at the other....


Published June 17, 2025
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