Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
G Dale
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Writer. Copywriter. Addicted to stories and movies. Moves in the wrong circles.
"I can’t tell you how many times I popped in that VHS and let myself access Donnie’s world. Dozens upon hundreds. And much like my own submission to the uncanny, I never aimed to crack its code, but just let it wash over me. I crawled right up inside of it and wore it like a stupid man suit."
Stupid Man Suit | Donnie Darko (2001)
And isn’t that 'Donnie Darko', too? Removed from the impossible tangle of time travel, it's really just a mood.
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I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
Is John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) the definitive Arthurian adaptation? Let's discuss this potent fever dream of a film, from its brilliant Merlin and excellent cast to some of its...weirder and more puzzling choices
Excalibur: An Epic Tale of Swords, Sorcery, and Baffling Tonal Shifts - Reactor
A deeply flawed, fascinating, and visually stunning film from director John Boorman.
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"For my films, I think I am an acquired taste." @filmfest.bsky.social chats with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, Hitchcock, Cronenberg, the Three Amigos, and monster movies. torontofilmcritics.com/features/gui...
Guillermo del Toro on Frankenstein and a Life of Making Monsters - Toronto Film Critics Association
An interview with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, Hitchcock, Cronenberg, the Three Amigos, and monster movies.
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These guys know their business, sure, but they've been tasked with the impossible. Paddington 2 scans as if Shakespeare and Moliere both rose from their graves and banged out one last triumph together. Fool's errand to go near a franchise after such work. And no, I'm not being hyperbolic.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2mo agoArmando Iannucci (‘The Death of Stalin’) and Simon Blackwell (‘Veep’) are writing the script for ‘PADDINGTON 4’.
"Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ is like a Fabergé fidget cube, its many contraptions and bells and whistles held together by so much humor and whimsy and craft as to be almost deliriously entertaining." - @justinh94.bsky.social
Hot Fuzz and the Comedy of Tactility
Hot Fuzz leverages every perfect match-cut and hilariously blocked visual gag to create something lastingly comforting and deliriously entertaining.
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