Kinemalogue
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than none
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Rio, Rififi-style
GRAND SLAM
aka
Ad ogna costi
(
At Any Cost
)
1967
Directed by Giuliano Montaldo
Written by Mino Roli
Spoilers: moderate
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
You're not fast enough for me
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
1995
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Simon Moore
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Suffer a witch
long enough
, and something good comes out of it
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS
2022
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Michael Waldron
Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, May 8, 2022
To conscript a thief
THEY MET IN BOMBAY
1941
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by John H. Kafka and Edwin Justus Mayer
Spoilers: moderate
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Friday, May 6, 2022
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
COME LIVE WITH ME
1941
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Virginia Van Upp and Patterson McNutt
Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, May 1, 2022
At the Gates of Hel, I will meet you
THE NORTHMAN
2022
Directed by Robert Eggers
Written by Sjón and Robert Eggers
Spoilers: moderate
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Monday, April 25, 2022
In the multiverse of sadness
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
2022
Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Spoilers: moderate, though if you're from a universe where obvious things aren't obvious, it's high
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Sunday, April 17, 2022
The fifth famous dan (er, not Zhang Junqiu)
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE
1993
Directed by Chen Kaige
Written by Lu Wei and Lilian Lee (based on the novel by Lilian Lee)
Spoilers: moderate, maybe high
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Monday, April 11, 2022
Der fledermaus
THE BATMAN
2022
Directed by Matt Reeves
Written by Peter Craig and Matt Reeves
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, April 6, 2022
What a disaster: What comes after "Holocene"?
METEOR
1979
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North
Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, April 3, 2022
Write what you know
THE LOST CITY
2022
Directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee
Written by Seth Gordon, Oren Uziel, Dana Fox, Adam Nee, and Aaron Nee
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
What a disaster: God went down with the Titanic
S.O.S. TITANIC
1979
Directed by William Hale
Written by James Costigan
Spoilers: N/A
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Man makes the clothes
THE OUTFIT
2022
Directed by Graham Moore
Written by Jonathan McClain and Graham Moore
Spoilers: moderate
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Monday, March 21, 2022
Garbo fucks
FLESH AND THE DEVIL
1927
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Benjamin Glazer and Marian Ainslee (based on the novel
The Undying Past
by Hermann Sudermann)
Spoilers: moderate
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Thursday, March 17, 2022
Evil woman
THE TEMPTRESS
1926
Directed by Fred Niblo and Mauritz Stiller
Written by Dorothy Farnum and Marian Ainslee (based on the novel
A Land For All
by
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez)
Spoilers: moderate
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
So did she ever actually get her period, or what?
TURNING RED
2022
Directed by Domee Shi
Written by Sarah Streicher, Julia Cho, and Domee Shi
Spoilers: high
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
On the other side of the water
TORRENT
1926
Directed by Monta Bell
Written by Dorothy Farnum, Katherine Hilliker, and H.H. Caldwell (based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez)
Spoilers: moderate
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Saturday, March 5, 2022
I love college. I love everything about it.
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS
1998
Directed by Alan Cohn
Written by Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, Michael Traeger, and Mike White
Spoilers: moderate
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Monday, February 28, 2022
What a disaster: The lateral inferno
CITY ON FIRE
1979
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Written by Jack Hill, Dave Lewis, and Céline La Frenière
Spoilers: moderate
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Friday, February 25, 2022
What a disaster: They're not even about airports after the first one, not really
THE CONCORDE ...AIRPORT '79
1979
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Written by Jennings Lang and Eric Roth
Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, February 20, 2022
What a disaster: Can't you see the morning after?
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
1979
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)
Spoilers: moderate
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Saturday, February 19, 2022
What a disaster: Stop saying "tram"
HANGING BY A THREAD
1979
Directed by George Fenady
Written by Adrian Spies
Spoilers: moderate
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
Dead again
DEATH ON THE NILE
2022
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Michael Green (based on the novel by Agatha Christie)
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Until I find who did this, my heart will have no feelings and no mercy
THE BLAZING SUN
aka
Sira Fi al-Wadi
(
Struggle In the Valley
); aka
The Blazing Sky
1954
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Written by Ali El Zorkani and Helmy Halim
Spoilers: moderate
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Monday, February 14, 2022
The boy next door
MARRY ME
2022
Directed by Kat Coiro
Written by John Rogers, Tami Sagher, and Harper Dill (based on the comic by Bobby Crosby)
Spoilers: moderate
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Sunday, February 13, 2022
Their culture is advanced beyond all you can comprehend with 100% of your brain
MOONFALL
2022
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Written by Harald Kloser, Spenser Cohen, and Roland Emmerich
Spoilers: moderate
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Donenesque
ARABESQUE
1966
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone (based on the novel
The Cipher
by Gordon Cotler)
Spoilers: mild
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Monday, February 7, 2022
Channing Tatum's least favorite movie of all time
GAMBIT
1966
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Sidney Carroll, Jack Davies, Alvin Sargent, and Shirley MacLaine
Spoilers: well, I'm going to discuss the beginning whether they like it or not, so
—
apparently
—
"catastrophically severe"
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Walt Disney, part XLII: Come into the light
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
1991
Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Written by so, so many people, so let's say "Linda Woolverton and Howard Ashman"
Spoilers: get real
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
Look at me, I'm dancing
ANCHORS AWEIGH
1945
Directed by George Sidney
Written by Isobel Lennart (based on a story by Natalie Marcin)
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
American Gothic Week: In the intensity of her wild desire for life—for life—but for life—solace and reason were the uttermost folly
THE TOMB OF LIGEIA
1964
Directed by Roger Corman
Written by Robert Towne (based on the story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe)
Spoilers: moderate
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
The net is vast
BELLE
2021
Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Spoilers: moderate
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
When blorlds collide
DON'T LOOK UP
2021
Directed by Adam McKay
Written by David Sirota and Adam McKay
Spoilers: moderat
e
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Sunday, January 9, 2022
American Gothic Week: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
1964
Directed by Roger Corman
Written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell (based on the stories "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe)
Spoilers: what part of "illimitable dominion" is unclear? (high)
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022
They want us up in their gray space pushing their WTF buttons
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
2021
Directed by Lana Wachowski
Written by David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, and Lana Wachowski
Spoilers: severe
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Sunday, January 2, 2022
Slender man
DADDY LONG LEGS
1955
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Johnny Mercer (based on the novel
Daddy-Long-Legs
and play
Daddy Long Legs
by Jean Webster)
Spoilers: moderate
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