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‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ or — The Irresistible Allure of “Effortless” Lustre?

It leaves you reeling like an unexpected smack on the lips. What the hell was that?! I’m not sure; it was too dazzling and moving too fast to accurately define. It travels light and is built for speed, like going to Paris where your only luggage is a best friend…

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ or — The Irresistible Allure of “Effortless” Lustre?
‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ or — The Irresistible Allure of “Effortless” Lustre?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Sep 16

‘Blazing Magnum’ or — Shit ‘Bullitt’ is Secretly Awesome?

It’s easy to get the impression during the first third of Alberto De Martino’s ‘Blazing Magnum’(1976) aka ‘Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta’ aka ‘Strange Shadows in an Empty Room’ that you’re watching a load of crap because the opening thirty minutes or so are what I can only call…

Blazing Magnum

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‘Blazing Magnum’ or — Shit ‘Bullitt’ is Secretly Awesome?
‘Blazing Magnum’ or — Shit ‘Bullitt’ is Secretly Awesome?
Blazing Magnum

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Sep 15

‘Il Giovedi’ or — ‘Il Sorpasso’ with Heart?

Watching Dino Risi’s ‘Il Giovedi’ (1963), or ‘The Thursday’, it was easy to wonder if the Italian filmmaker might not’ve been firing on all cylinders with this one as despite containing the director’s usual tropes — a road trip, the deconstruction of the Italian man/child, social satire, etc — the…

Il Giovedi

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‘Il Giovedi’ or — ‘Il Sorpasso’ with Heart?
‘Il Giovedi’ or — ‘Il Sorpasso’ with Heart?
Il Giovedi

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Sep 12

‘Outside the Law’ or — The Radical Power of Pure Watchability?

I was scratching my head in bafflement watching ‘Outside the Law’ (1956) last night and not because of any impenetrable plot intricacies or convoluted narrative twists but simply at how much I was enjoying the bloody thing. After all, this is a noir that’s somewhat lightweight, reveals nothing about the…

Outside The Law Film

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‘Outside the Law’ or — The Radical Power of Pure Watchability?
‘Outside the Law’ or — The Radical Power of Pure Watchability?
Outside The Law Film

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Sep 11

‘Vengeance is Mine’ or — The Good, the Bad and the Melodramatic?

Giovanni Fago’s ‘Vengeance is Mine’ (1967) opens in a deceptively stereotypical fashion as rugged bounty hunter, John Forest (the always awesome Gianni Garko), dispatches a group of bandits led by prolific character actor Fernando Sancho (a performer many Italian Western fans would presume is going to be the film’s main…

Vengeance Is Mine

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‘Vengeance is Mine’ or — The Good, the Bad and the Melodramatic?
‘Vengeance is Mine’ or — The Good, the Bad and the Melodramatic?
Vengeance Is Mine

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Sep 7

‘The Equalizer 3’ or — Challenge Denzel?

There was a British TV show that aired back in the early 1990’s called ‘Challenge Anneka’ where the jump-suited Anneka Rice would arrive in a local town or village and help them out by the sheer force of her charitable personality alone and a helicopter. ‘The Equalizer 3’ (2023) is…

The Equalizer 3

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‘The Equalizer 3’ or — Challenge Denzel?
‘The Equalizer 3’ or — Challenge Denzel?
The Equalizer 3

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Sep 3

‘Ride the Pink Horse’ or — The Limitations of Masculinity?

A shifty looking man in a cheap looking hat and an even cheaper looking suit walks into the bus station of a small New Mexico town. He sits down, opens his only suitcase and “discreetly” takes out a gun which he slides into his breast-pocket. He then takes out a…

Ride The Pink Horse

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‘Ride the Pink Horse’ or — The Limitations of Masculinity?
‘Ride the Pink Horse’ or — The Limitations of Masculinity?
Ride The Pink Horse

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Aug 28

‘Pillow Talk’ or — Mutually Assured Destruction?

So I watched ‘Pillow Talk’ (1959) at the weekend and let’s just say I have some thoughts on the movie, and they are thoughts I’d like to share with you right now by means of the lazy writer’s greatest friend — a series of haphazardly banged-out bullet points! · —…

Pillow Talk

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‘Pillow Talk’ or — Mutually Assured Destruction?
‘Pillow Talk’ or — Mutually Assured Destruction?
Pillow Talk

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Aug 27

‘How to Kill a Judge’ or — Deliberately Infuriating?

It doesn’t take long for Damiano Damiani’s ‘How to Kill a Judge’ (1975) to get all ‘meta’ on our asses as it opens with Franco Nero playing a film director, Giacomo Solaris, having just released a movie about the assassination of a corrupt Sicilian judge. When said magistrate turns up…

How To Kill A Judge

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‘How to Kill a Judge’ or — Deliberately Infuriating?
‘How to Kill a Judge’ or — Deliberately Infuriating?
How To Kill A Judge

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Aug 25

‘Meg 2: The Trench’ or — Wheatley’s Best by a Nautical Mile?

Okay look, I’ve made no bones over the years about not being the world’s biggest Ben Wheatley fan; I found ‘Kill List’ (2011) daft and overrated, ‘Free Fire’ (2016) irredeemably annoying and the less said about his staggeringly misguided ‘High-Rise’ (2015) the better. It’s not that I didn’t think he…

Meg 2 The Trench

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ or — Wheatley’s Best by a Nautical Mile?
‘Meg 2: The Trench’ or — Wheatley’s Best by a Nautical Mile?
Meg 2 The Trench

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Colin Edwards

Colin Edwards

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Comedy writer, radio producer and director of large scale audio features.

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