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Rear Window (1954)
It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.
Filmmaker(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Thriller
Mystery

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

10 Dec

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Copernican Cinema just don't like Hitchcock. I admit that he ‘delivered value' in his day, but as I review his films today, I find them trite, badly dated. The style of acting he used now looks ’actorly.' His camera framing is well considered but unimaginative...


Published December 10, 2024
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
I told you... you know nothing about wickedness
Filmmaker(s): Orson Welles
Mystery
Crime
Thriller

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

11 Dec

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Chinese Puzzle first mystery is to guess what Welles' original film was like. That makes this a real adventure -- to see an incomplete skeleton and using cinematic forensics, imagine the beautiful woman it once supported. If you do, you will both see and experience perhaps...


Published December 11, 2024
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Vertigo (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension!
Filmmaker(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery
Romance
Thriller

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

11 Dec

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Two Dizzy really has to separate the idea of this film from its execution. I think the idea is terrific and the execution wobbly at least by today's standards. First, the story, which is clever and self-referentially about the making of itself. Initially, we are shown the...


Published December 11, 2024
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
...Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady...
Filmmaker(s): Elia Kazan
Drama
Thriller

A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

11 Dec

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Mass Transit vast majority of films use someone else's vocabulary, so when you can run across one that helped create that vocabulary it is cause for celebration. Usually the originality is in the vision of the filmmaker, but here it is in the manner of...


Published December 11, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
Hear how it all began.
Filmmaker(s): Michael Sarnoski
Horror
Science Fiction
Thriller

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

23 Dec

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Memories interesting to me is how genres evolve and sub-genres emerge. This is still advertised as a horror film, and I read some comments from disappointed film-goers that it wasn’t scary enough. What I see is a science fiction film with a consistent threat —...


Published December 23, 2024
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Only when you are lost can you truly find yourself
Filmmaker(s): Bille August
Mystery
Romance
Thriller

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.

24 Dec

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Authorship did not work for me, and I would like to discover and report why. It is a film adapted from a successful book, in which (another) book is the primary agent. Both the outer and inner books are deeply philosophical, abstracting themes about life that...


Published December 24, 2024
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Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)
Some Tracks Should Never Be Uncovered.
Filmmaker(s): Bille August
Drama
Thriller

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

24 Dec

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Snow Job is a replacement comment, the original having been removed because of a complaint. One of the reasons for leaving IMDB and setting up this site is because possibly over a thousand of my comments were lost because some fundamentalist warrior took it on...


Published December 24, 2024
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57 Minutes (2023)
Rewind the past. Avenge the future.
Filmmaker(s): Rusty Cundieff
Thriller
Science Fiction
Action

When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.

27 Jan

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Circuit-Face are three layers to this thing. The first is our standard pop noir where an ordinary yobbo is plucked from life for in this case changing the world and winning the girl. There’s some silly science in there. Nothing interesting. Standard noir Voiceover narration. The...


Published January 27, 2025
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All the King’s Men (2006)
Time brings all things to light.
Filmmaker(s): Steven Zaillian
Drama
Thriller

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

08 Mar

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Lucy in the Sky critics hated it. The public stayed home. But I liked this. A lot. It is cinematic. Powerful cinema. And I am telling you I liked this with a bit of surprise on my part. That's because it has two actors who often...


Published March 8, 2023
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Paprika (2006)
Filmmaker(s): Satoshi Kon
Animation
Science Fiction
Thriller

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

20 Feb

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His Own Mirror happens when you see a wonderful film, a truly wonderful one, and you are disappointed because the very last one you saw was from the same filmmaker and was very much better? I should have watched some trash first. The better film I'm...


Published February 20, 2025
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