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The Beekeeper 2024
David Ayer's reputation has never been high among film fans, too many jump cuts, editing that makes your head hurt, and although his screenplay for Antoine Fuqua's Training Day remains one of his finest achievements, he seems to get as much flak for his style of gritty violence within his films as Michael Bay gets for his bombastic output. Ayer divides opinion, even in the action genre where we tend to give our directors a bit of leeway in theβ¦
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man 1999
These documentaries on the Hollywood legends have been a mixed bunch so far, with some of Gene Feldman's interviewees less than loquacious with some of the stars he's focusing his attention on. Feldman's doc on Alan Ladd is 25 years old now, and was made 35 years after the Hot Springs, Arkansas born actor passed away, and it must have been difficult to find new information on Ladd that hadn't already been covered in various biographies? Ladd was only 50β¦
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The Man from Laramie 1955
The difference between watching Fred Zinnemann's High Noon and Anthony Mann's Man of the West, is chalk and cheese for me. They both starred Gary Cooper, both have him play a character stuck in an impossible situation, a man destined for change, but ultimately drawn back into a life of violence. The difference between the films is simple, the directorial flourishes from Anthony Mann, an under-appreciated master within the Western genre that doesn't have the legendary status of John Fordβ¦