Had Burt Lancaster been forty years today he would play Bruce Wayne/Batman. There's simply something about his power presence, pronounced intelligence, verbal force and sturdy figure. And then there's that impeccable jawline. But we don't have Lancaster's version of the caped crusader, but instead - and maybe even better - we have J.J. Hunsecker. A powerful newspaper columnist that doesn't dress up at night to fight crime, but instead run his own agenda to maintain power and control in a…
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Scanners 1981
Just rewatched SCANNERS (1981) only three weeks ago, yet here we are again. Having just done a deep-dive into David Cronenberg, completing his filmography and watching one interesting film after another, this movie about telekinetic people somehow appears as one of the truly special ones - and that's for a man who've made movies about bloody fly transformations, immersive snuff TV, car fetichism, divorce trauma, Russian mobsters and even a Sigmund Freud biopic.
Yet SCANNERS feels special. Not necessarily his…
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Enola Holmes 2020
There's a lot of people-being-drowned-in-toilets scenes out there, and whenever I see one I think to myself: "If it was me I would struggle for a while and then play dead, only to gain momentum, get my head up and fight back". To this day I had never seen this done in a film so I just want to thank ENOLA HOLMES (2020) for finally doing the logical thing that only took 120 years of cinema. Well done! Besides forever changing the course of drowning-in-toilet-scenes this Sherlock Holmes spin-off is sweet and innocent without much at risk.
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