Author: Dave Franklin
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Ghost
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Read more: GhostIt seems I don’t have much luck in trying to expand my horizons with the frown-inducing stuff. Convoluted Italian class struggles, suicidal Holocaust survivors,
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Army of Shadows
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Read more: Army of ShadowsIn my humble opinion, not enough movies have been made about the French Resistance. I can’t even begin to imagine how brave those lot were, covertly operating under the pronounced threat of torture and death
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Nuns on the Run
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Read more: Nuns on the RunIt’s no Tootsie or Some Like It Hot, but the cross-dressing Nuns delivers a goofy, well-paced ninety minutes laced with a gentle mockery of Catholicism.
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More with JFK
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Read more: More with JFKMy eyes tend to glaze when people start trotting out conspiracy theories about the moon landing, 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.
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Roller Boogie
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Read more: Roller BoogieDespite only having enough plot for a twenty-minute short, Boogie stretches its ultra-lightweight hijinks out for five times as long. This is just as well.
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The Virgin Spring
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Read more: The Virgin SpringI’ve always been wary of Ingmar Bergman. Too intellectual and artsy-fartsy, you know? Sometimes I download one of the Swedish auteur’s flicks only to end up deleting it months later
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The Blue Lagoon
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Read more: The Blue LagoonDespite being a much derided actress, I’ve somehow grown fond of Brooke Shields. I quite like her early work
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Fucked-Up Films #14: Open Season (1974)
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Read more: Fucked-Up Films #14: Open Season (1974)Some movies are historically important and hugely influential but a chore to sit through
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1900 (1976)
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Read more: 1900 (1976)Although the likes of De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster are faves, I’ve always been a bit disappointed with myself for never getting around to Bernardo Bertolucci’s two-part historical drama.
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Cocktail
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Read more: CocktailCruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.