3 things about Lewis Allen’s ILLEGAL

Posted on July 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Illegal [1955]

1. A poison that takes 45 minutes to work.
2. Storefront: DALE’S RECORD SHOP
3. Deathbed confession that arrives too late.

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3 things about Bong Joon Ho’s MICKEY 17

Posted on July 20, 2025 by robchristopher

Mickey 17 [2025]

1. The tail becomes a sauce.
2. An accent somewhere between Bobby Brady and Columbo.
3. Sex expends too many calories.

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3 things about Paul Wendkos’ GIDGET

Posted on July 19, 2025 by robchristopher

Gidget [1959]

1. She’s reluctant to strip down to her bathing suit; one of her friends commands: “Peel, girl!”
2. Breast-enhancing exercises.
3. When The Four Preps pop in to perform “Cinderella” at the luau, it’s the squarest, corniest, whitest musical interlude in 1959 cinema.

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3 things about Jean Renoir’s FRENCH CANCAN

Posted on July 18, 2025 by robchristopher

French Cancan [1955]

1. An afternoon tryst in the backroom of the boulangerie.
2. Taking turns showing off their newfound limberness.
3. Pepto-Bismol walls backstage.

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3 things about Steven Soderbergh’s OUT OF SIGHT

Posted on July 13, 2025 by robchristopher

Out of Sight [1998]

1. She silently enters the bathroom, spots him, makes an appraisal.
2. Reading glasses perched on Dennis Farina’s nose.
3. “I just want to know what happens next.”
“You know.”

3 other things.

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3 things about Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER

Posted on July 12, 2025 by robchristopher

28 Days Later [2002]

1. Their note. “Don’t wake up.”
2. Fleeing rats.
3. “I promised them women.”

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3 things about Aaron Wertheimer’s WEDGERINO

Posted on July 10, 2025 by robchristopher

Wedgerino [2015]

1. When something’s cooler than cool, it’s beige.
2. A round of private conversations.
3. “I’m Lisa. People call me ‘Sa for short.”

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3 things about Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin’s CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER

Posted on July 9, 2025 by robchristopher

Chronicle of a Summer [1961]

1. “I paint to understand the painting of others.”
2. A long pause. “If I only knew.”
3. Several minutes go by after we first see the tattoo before it is explained to us what it means.

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Posted on July 8, 2025 by robchristopher

The Dark Knight Rises [2012]

1. The stock market raid occurs in the daytime and about five minutes later it’s the dead of night.
2. Alfred and Fernet-Branca.
3. Extremely tall bench.

3 other things.

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3 things about Busby Berkeley’s THE GANG’S ALL HERE

Posted on July 7, 2025 by robchristopher

The Gang’s All Here [1943]

1. “I know what I’d do if girl take my man away from me.”
“What do you mean?”
“I break her into little hunks. And then I break him into little hunks. And then I take all the little hunks and—Well, good-bye. I must do some rehearsalings.”
2. Banana wave.
3. She teaches him how to dunk a donut.

3 other things.

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