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The Transporter (2002)
Ür-text for much of the past decade’s high-flying thrill-rides, with future House of Besson protégés Pierre Morel as Director of Photography, and Lou…
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CutThroat Island (1995)
A quarter-century after its release, CutThroat Island still holds a notorious place in filmic folklore. In inflation adjusted terms it’s the second …
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
After sitting through the gamut of disappointing-to-desultory experiences that had been 2017’s superhero movie roster, I was strongly tempted to boyc…
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
One reason Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is so beloved lies in how it presents problems often dismissed as trivial or dramatically non-urgent – t…
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Unconquered (1947)
Continuing my recent pseudo-survey of Cecil B. DeMille’s films, Unconquered brings me to his first post-WW2 film, and his last American history subj…
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