Directed by Doug Liman.

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Revisiting the dustiest films on the shelf
Here we go with another By The Decade post to help broaden my cinematic horizons and welcome your recommendations from a specific era – the last two weeks especially have thrown out some really great suggestions, and I think this one will be great too.
Following the previous 3 From The 30s, 4 From The 40s, 5 From The 50s, 6 From The 60s, 7 From The 70s and 8 From The 80s posts, we’ve had brilliant suggestions from readers for their favourite films from the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s.
I’ll be honest, the choices I’ve made this week are not my favourite films from that decade, they’re certainly not the best films of the decade, and I’m well aware they’re incredibly mainstream and obvious.
I guess that’s a disclaimer of sorts, but this isn’t a judgemental place, so feel free to shout up with some of your top films from the 1990s, whether you feel they’re respected or not!
Continue reading “By The Decade: 9 From The Nineties”There’s a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin where characters are watching The Bourne Identity and Paul Rudd’s character states…
“Y’know, I always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but he’s rocking the shit in this one!”
It’s not a classic or even a classy quote, but it got me thinking about movie performances that changed my mind about a performer.
Continue reading “Performances that changed your mind”Like many things, David Bowie put it best when he wrote: “It was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor.” Twelve little words that succinctly sum up how cinema has changed the way we think.
There’s been plenty of debate about how movies can warp the minds of civilised viewers, but I’m not interested in the ‘do violent movies cause violence’ debate – well, I am, but a light hearted blog written in my spare time really isn’t the place for that.
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