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Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott - Review by Daniel Fagan “You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.” Alfred Hitchcock famously (or perhaps infamously) denoted the difference between surprise and suspense with
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The Death of Stalin (2017) dir. Armando Iannucci “I'm off to represent the entire Red Army at the buffet. You girls enjoy yourselves.” In early 2018, a mere two days before its scheduled release in Russia, Armando Iannucci’s bleak, dark comedy, The Death of Stalin, had its
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'O Brother Where Art Thou?' - Review by Daniel Fagan “Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.” It doesn’t take long to realise there’s nothing quite like the Coen Brother’s O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Ocean’s Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh “The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.” For more than seventy years all Las Vegas has done is
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“We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.” Stand on a shoreline on a clear night and gaze toward the horizon. Somewhere out there, just beyond your view, is the
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The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed “Don't be so gloomy. After all, it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
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“You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses
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“I know a little German. He's sitting over there.” There is no film with a denser joke per second ratio than Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker’s (ZAZ) 1984 comedic masterpiece, Top Secret!. The follow-up to their 1980 spoof hit, Airplane! (or Flying High as it was initially released
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“I done wrestled with an alligator. That's right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That's bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I'm
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“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn't I choose something else?’ But overall, I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long
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“I've studied the form of comics intimately. I've spent a third of my life in a hospital bed... with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics are our last link... to an ancient way of passing on history. The Egyptians drew on walls. Countries
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Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us… seems like an awful waste of space. Right?” Science fiction has