Thankfully devotes minimal time defending the quality of the song itself -- from a songwriting perspective, easily the weakest of the three charity supergroup singles released during that six-month window -- in favour of focusing on the recording session logistics. "The bridge people" segment with Cyndi Lauper's "harmonic" jewelry and Kim Carnes' role quietly being clawed back was a highlight. Might have found this less interesting had I been previously familiar with much of this footage, which appears to have been available on YouTube for the past decade.
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Three Secrets 1950
Unfamiliar with the background behind this project, but structurally this largely plays as a middling knock-off of A Letter To Three Wives, which hit theatres the previous year. The Eleanor Parker segment is the strongest of the triptych, with rather dull newsreel-type coverage of the rescue operation padding out the proceedings.
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Lone Survivor 2013
Taliban fighters are ignominiously dispatched in gloriously juicy splatters; our protagonist's comrades valiantly fall in majestic slow-motion. All that's missing are insert shots of awed, teary-eyed observers. Hooyah.
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In Fabric 2018
Second viewing; no change -- this seems endlessly rewatchable to me; I'm already eagerly anticipating the inclusion of the Dentley & Soper TV advertisement -- which doesn't quite reach the heights (or irresistible earworm properties) of Halloween III Silver Shamrock jingle, but features the singularly mesmerizing image of the beckoning salesladies enticing (luring?) us -- as an extra feature on a Blu-Ray release that can be played in a loop. Although this film has been described in some circles as a…