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  Best Coast: Our Deal 2011

  

  Graham Williamson ★★★½ 1

  52 films by women 2022: 35/52.

  Shortly after directing Whip It, the only sports movie ever made, Drew Barrymore signed up to direct a music video for 'Our Deal', the…

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  Zulu 1964

  

  Steve G 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 ★★★★½ 5

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  I'm starting to come round to the belief that the most interesting aspect of 1960s British war films is the tentative critiques of British imperialism you…

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  The Stand at Paxton County 2020

  

  Travis Lytle ★★½

  A convoluted story and muddled politics mark "The Stand at Paxton County," a neo-Western thriller that could have stood stronger with a more straightforward narrative. Finding North Dakota ranchers under…

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  The Stand at Paxton County 2020

  

  Steve G 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 ★★★

  Netflix have largely been quite good over the last few years at spotting a low budget, small town crime film.

  The Stand at Paxton County isn't the best of them…

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  Blade II 2002

  

  Liam W ★★★★½

  Fantastic sequel. Still keeps the cheesiness of the previous film, yet is much grimier compared to the atmosphere of the first instalment- helped by having Guillermo del Toro in the…

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  The Wicked Lady 1983

  

  Liam W ★½

  Another Michael Winner snore fest. Couldn’t keep my focus on it for that long and not even Tony Banks’ score could hold my interest (the synth tracks on the soundtrack…

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  Blue Velvet 1986

  

  Liam W ★★★★★

  All of David Lynch’s films I’ve seen so far have been excellent in their own ways. Here, Lynch crafts a beautiful neo-noir drenched in a miasma of seediness and voyeurism.…

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  Escape from New York 1981

  

  Liam W ★★★★

  Didn’t immerse me as much as it did first viewing, but I still absolutely love the gritty dystopia that Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey paint here, even if it could’ve…