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Purple Rain 1984
Some elements of this film have really not aged well... but then, others have. Obviously, 5 stars for the music, though not for the film.
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Red Rock West 1993
I've got a particular fondness for the subgenre of thriller I think of as "one bad decision", where the whole story snowballs out of a single inadvisable choice someone makes early on, and Red Rock West is one of my all-time favourites in this category. It's a film I saw years ago and loved, and have never had a chance to see again since, despite keeping an eye out for it on various streaming services (and I think maybe even…
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Onibaba 1964
An incredibly atmospheric film, set in a beautiful but bleak - and starkly black and white - watery landscape where the wind whistles endlessly through reeds, populated by people who survive by murdering and robbing stragglers from an ongoing, off-screen civil war. There's something otherworldly about the landscape: a reedy, marshy plain that seems to be endless, where luckless samurai become lost and wander in circles, ripe for the picking. Somewhere in the field is a deep, dark, and not…
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One Cut of the Dead 2017
This is such a fun film. It's best watched without knowing too much about where it's going, but it's not a spoiler to say that it has one of the most entertaining and satisfying pay-offs that I've seen in a long time.
