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Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Death Wish (1974)


For one brief moment, Charles Bronson's Dr Paul Kersey - an architect whose wife is killed and daughter raped by gangbangers (one of them a young and lanky Jeff Goldblum) - steps out onto a NYC rooftop and surveys the city from above, and this vigilante may as well be in Gothan in a mask and cape, or, come to think of it, perhaps he's more like Victor Zsasz because it's a pretty unpleasant, unrewarding, socially troubling revenge he metes out.

★★★☆☆

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Thursday, 10 November 2016

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)


Behind the big stadium theatrics of all the world's mega rock'n'roll bands, you just know there are the inflated egos, the writhing masses of petty differences, the overblown personalities and idiocy and mismanagement of the sorts portrayed in this classic and hilarious rock mockumentary.

★★★★☆

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