Kinemalogue
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than none
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Farewell my concubine
LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT
2017 PRC/2019 USA
Directed by Chen Kaige
Written by Hui-Ling Wang and Chen Kaige (based on the novel
Sramana Kukai
by Baku Yumenakura)
Spoiler alert: mild
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The legendary weapons of China
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
2021
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Written by Dave Callaham, Andrew Lanham, and Destin Daniel Cretton
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Monday, September 20, 2021
Cardboard Science: Jet age
CHAIN LIGHTNING
1950
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Written by Liam O'Brien, Vincent B. Evans, and Lester Cole
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Thursday, September 16, 2021
She's a real basket case
MALIGNANT
2021
Directed by James Wan
Written by Ingrid Bisu, Akela Cooper, and James Wan
Spoiler alert: the determination of a spoiler warning is a subjective exercise, of course, but I will assert "moderate"
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Sunday, September 12, 2021
Have you considered a centrifuge?
MADAME CURIE
1943
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Paul Osborn, Paul Rameau, Walter Reisch, and Aldous Huxley (based on the book by Éve Curie)
Spoiler alert: inapplicable
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021
If she doesn't scare you, that sounds about right
CRUELLA
2021
Directed by Craig Gillepsie
Written by Dana Fox, Tony McNamara, Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel, and Steve Zissis
Spoiler alert: the puppies were all products of incest, apparently (moderate)
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"All women are rivals, fundamentally" (so which one's Joan Fontaine?)
THE DARK MIRROR
1946
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Written by Nunnally Johnson and Vladimir Pozner
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Sunday, September 5, 2021
Try hitting him with the car again, that usually works in cases like these
RANDOM HARVEST
1942
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, and Claudine West (based on the novel by James Hilton)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Saturday, September 4, 2021
You killed Charlotte! You bastards!
BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST
1941
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Anita Loos and Ralph Wainwright
Spoiler alert: inapplicable? though Edna Gladney is not, I daresay, actually well-known, plus they make up a whole lot of stuff, so "moderate"
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I loved you, I've never loved anyone else, I never shall
WATERLOO BRIDGE
1940
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, and George Froeschel (based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood)
Spoiler alert: moderate (and severe, I suppose, for the 1931 film of the same name, which I recommend you never watch for fun)
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
And some, you'd assume, were good people
HOLD BACK THE DAWN
1941
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard Maibaum, and Manuel Reachi (based on the novel by Ketti Frings)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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