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25 Oct 2021, 12:31 am
"the music man" - a marvelously witty adaptation of the stage play. 
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25 Nov 2021, 8:05 pm
I'm up to the third of the matrix "trilogy" for a bit of fresh perspective and leading to the 4th.
I'm excited to see the Fourth one soon! I find it very comforting that they are putting some spin onto the whole idea used for the "trilogy", going by the trailers.
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26 Nov 2021, 7:43 pm
Double Indemnity
This 1944 film is the only one in my 'Film Noir' box set so far that I've found to be genuinely top class, though Out Of The Past wasn't at all bad. Barbara Stanwyck stars as a woman in an unhappy marriage who conspires with dodgy insurance salesman Fred McMurray to murder her husband and claim a huge payout for his death. They're thwarted largely by the efforts of McMurray's work colleague, played by Edward G Robinson.
Unlike the Noirs I've seen so far, the plot is refreshingly straightforward, at least until the final ten minutes or so, when I was struggling a bit to keep up. The dialogue is also excellent, as is the cinematography. I'd only come across Stanwyck before as the fifty-something star of a 1966 Western serial called 'The Big Valley', and was astonished at how attractive she had been in her prime.
9/10
26 Nov 2021, 7:53 pm
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This 1944 film is the only one in my 'Film Noir' box set so far that I've found to be genuinely top class, though Out Of The Past wasn't at all bad. Barbara Stanwyck stars as a woman in an unhappy marriage who conspires with dodgy insurance salesman Fred McMurray to murder her husband and claim a huge payout for his death. They're thwarted largely by the efforts of McMurray's work colleague, played by Edward G Robinson.
Unlike the Noirs I've seen so far, the plot is refreshingly straightforward, at least until the final ten minutes or so, when I was struggling a bit to keep up. The dialogue is also excellent, as is the cinematography. I'd only come across Stanwyck before as the fifty-something star of a 1966 Western serial called 'The Big Valley', and was astonished at how attractive she had been in her prime.
9/10
I love this movie, and find Barbara Stanwyck more beautiful than any other actress. I really love her in The Lady Eve.
23 Dec 2021, 8:20 am
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23 Dec 2021, 6:04 pm
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