3 things about Preston Sturges’ HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO

Posted on December 5, 2025 by robchristopher

Hail the Conquering Hero [1944]

1. Burning the mortgage at the pulpit.
2. “I never felt better in my life, except I never felt worse.”
3. Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith.

3 other things.

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3 things about John Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Posted on December 3, 2025 by robchristopher

Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]

1. “I go through all that, and his gun isn’t even loaded.”
2. Blood on the car roof.
3. Crowbar hooks coming over the edge of the door.

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3 things about Jia Zhangke’s CAUGHT BY THE TIDES

Posted on December 2, 2025 by robchristopher

Caught by the Tides [2024]

1. Pushing her back into the seat again and again and again.
2. Wordlessly removing the taser gun from her purse and showing it to the would-be robbers.
3. The robot apologizes for not being able to read her face. She lowers her mask.

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3 things about Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Posted on November 25, 2025 by robchristopher

It Was Just an Accident [2025]

1. Motif of stray dogs.
2. After telling the security guards he doesn’t have any cash on him, one of them helpfully produces a mobile credit card reader and punches in the amount of the bribe.
3. Box of sweets for the nurse.

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3 things about Marc Forster’s QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Posted on November 24, 2025 by robchristopher

Quantum of Solace [2008]

1. “Hello. We’re teachers on sabbatical and we’ve just won the lottery.”
2. Tripping him on the stairs “accidentally.”
3. Literally at the end of his rope.

3 other things.

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3 things about John G. Avildsen’s SAVE THE TIGER

Posted on November 23, 2025 by robchristopher

Save the Tiger [1973]

1. Garters for his socks.
2. “You want something?”
“Yes … I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I want to see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Hear Billie Holiday sing ‘Fine and Mellow.’ Walk in that kind of rain that never washes the perfume away. I want to be in love with something. Anything. Just an idea. A dog, a cat, anything. Something.”
3. He slips him the envelope of cash and tells him to do it Sunday, while Phil is out fishing.

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3 things about Robina Rose’s NIGHTSHIFT

Posted on November 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Nightshift [1981]

1. Telephone conversation in the lounge.
2. Eating a meal at her desk.
3. Glass cleaner.

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3 things about Howard Hawks’ BARBARY COAST

Posted on November 21, 2025 by robchristopher

Barbary Coast [1935]

1. They gallantly carry her across the muck of the street.
2. Fake eye-patch.
3. A character with the name of “Knuckles” Jacoby.

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3 things about Kathryn Bigelow’s A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Posted on November 20, 2025 by robchristopher

A House of Dynamite [2025]

1. Surrender or suicide.
2. A brief moment alone at the window before he is hustled out of the room.
3. “Bad knees.”

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3 things about Terence Young’s RED SUN

Posted on November 17, 2025 by robchristopher

Red Sun [1971]

1. He kills a single mosquito with his sword.
2. Sleeping on the floor in the whorehouse.
3. “I think you’re one hell of a man.”
“I think you are one son of a bitch.”

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