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Limitless (2011)

Everything is possible when you open your mind.

Filmmaker(s): Neil Burger

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

24 Dec Limitless (2011)

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Constraints are two things here to recommend. The first is that the screenplay is based on a fresh idea that springs from the kind of gangster genre typified by Snatch. I’ll characterise this as an anti-genre film because it uses that genre as a shortcut to...

Published December 24, 2022

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Tagged: 2010s, f2011, p2015

1408 (2007)

The Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of its stunning rooms. Except one.

Filmmaker(s): Mikael Håfström

Horror

Mystery

Thriller

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

15 Dec 1408 (2007)

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Shined Up decided to watch this after Polanski’s “The Tenant” and that was probably a bad choice, because that film is precious. This one consists of three elements, typical of the King formula. The first is the expression of terror, shaped safely so that you can watch...

Published December 15, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2007, p2008

310 to Yuma (1957)

The lonesome whistle of a train... bringing the gallows closer to a desperado... the showdown nearer to his captor!

Filmmaker(s): Delmer Daves

Western

Drama

Thriller

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

15 Dec 310 to Yuma (1957)

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These Are the Brown Ones am particularly fond of movies that I can see through other facets: remakes, derivatives, spoofs and so on. This one is particularly rich. The remake is quite modern, a story about making a story. The Crowe character (the bad guy)...

Published December 15, 2022

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Tagged: 1950s, f1957, p2008

127 hours (2010)

There is no force more powerful than the will to live.

Filmmaker(s): Danny Boyle

Adventure

Drama

Thriller

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

15 Dec 127 hours (2010)

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The Hand Left in the Thing are so many filmmakers out there that I am still approaching many films the way they were intended to be approached: as self-contained works of art (or craft). But there are some filmmakers I know well enough to trust...

Published December 15, 2022

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Tagged: 2010s, f2010, p2011

Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Filmmaker(s): José Luis Garci

Film based on the characters of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It tells a hypothetical meeting in Madrid between the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.

12 Dec Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

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Fight Clubs the literary creation, is important in the development of film, yet films that use his character do so without mining the cinematic possibilities. Now here is a film that does just that. It is by a famous Spanish literary figure, who has also...

Published December 12, 2022

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Tagged: 2010s, f2012, p2015

The 39 Steps (1935)

Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him

Filmmaker(s): Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery

Thriller

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

08 Dec The 39 Steps (1935)

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Step By Step Performances but two Hitchcock films are cursed by the transcended achievement of those two. So the remainder will always seem pale in comparison while unfairly having elements of those retroactively applied. But I believe that the early Hitchcock was a simply competent filmmaker...

Published December 8, 2022

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Tagged: 1930s, f1935, p2005

16 Blocks (2006)

1 witness… 118 minutes…

Filmmaker(s): Richard Donner

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

07 Dec 16 Blocks (2006)

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Blockage it is just the man. It is not a new thing that movies promote personality and that certain personalities find their time. One type is the everyman. James Stewart was of this variety. Not a great man or suave. Not a lover or hero. Bruce Willis mines...

Published December 7, 2022

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Rehearsal for Murder (1982)

Where the curtain comes up on Terror

Filmmaker(s): David Greene

A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.

06 Dec Rehearsal for Murder (1982)

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Mixed Audiences I love this stuff. What happens here: a playwright has his wife murdered. He assembles the suspects to read a new play, and this play concerns events that implicate each of them. Each of these suspects is placed under increasing pressure by what he...

Published December 6, 2022

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Tagged: 1980s, f1982, p2015

Transcendence (2014)

Yesterday, Dr. Will Caster was only human...

Filmmaker(s): Wally Pfister

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

06 Dec Transcendence (2014)

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Behind the Screens of my angels die when I encounter a film like this. It has a mix of things that disturb and disappoint. A minor but essential problem is that the actors do a bad job. All of these men at least has had...

Published December 6, 2022

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Terminator Genisys (2015)

Reset the future

Filmmaker(s): Alan Taylor

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.

06 Dec Terminator Genisys (2015)

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Reincarnation do you do if your strategy is copying old successes, and the copies don’t do as well as you like? This strategy of ‘rebooting’ is mainstream now. We accept it, so long as the new franchise shows promise. That means that some storylines can...

Published December 6, 2022

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