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The Gorge, 2025 - ★★½ (contains spoilers)
February 22, 2025
This review may contain spoilers. Okay but if it’s all a super secret mercenary operation, who’s managing the east side of the gorge? And where’d the Lithuanian sniper learn all the colloquial phrases? And would our evil CEO really get her hands dirty like that?I am fine with suspending disbelief for a good genre film […]
Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949 - ★★★★
February 22, 2025
Joan Greenwood swanning around discovering the joys of immorality is a movie unto itself. She provides some of the best sidelong glances imaginable. Also there’s a very dark murder comedy playing out in the rest of the movie, and Alec Guiness is very good in that.It’s clearly a satire of a bygone age; much of […]
Caged, 1950 - ★★★★
February 17, 2025
It’s a grim melodrama, aimed at making the argument for reform rather than prurience. Although there are moments that must have been fairly transgressive back in 1950. The script gives just about every significant role time to develop, resulting in a really rich story despite the relatively simple throughline of the plot. It’s kind of […]
Alias Nick Beal, 1949 - ★★★
February 17, 2025
It took me till the end of the movie to figure out that it’s a classic morality play — I’m slow, and I kept expecting a battle of wits. As such, the inevitability of it all didn’t click with me. Ray Milland is a great Satanic figure, though, and the cinematography is top notch, all foggy […]
Tension, 1949 - ★★★½
February 16, 2025
Audrey Totter is everything she needed to be in this: brassy, scheming, charismatic, and mean. It’s hard to believe for one second that her Claire ever settled for Richard Basehart’s nebbish pharmacist. He keeps this from being really good — just doesn’t have enough charisma to be the centerpiece. Everyone else makes up for it, […]