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GROSS 41 - Cinderella is film noir
It's 1950. Noir has peaked. Walt Disney has something to say.
Jul 23
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GROSS 40 - biblical tribal screwball
Cecil B. DeMille was a miserable bastard but essentially invented contemporary Hollywood.
Jul 16
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GROSS 39 - Mid-century madness
The Snake Pit is a careful, humane account of the purpose of psychiatry.
Jul 7
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June 2024
GROSS, PART 38 - Forever Amber, the original bonkbuster
Sex and the Restoration
Jun 29
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Steve Bowbrick
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DONALD SUTHERLAND, the twinkle in the eye of the New Hollywood
1935-2024
Jun 21
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May 2024
GROSS, PART 37 - both racist and lame
The war has ended. Walt Disney is exhausted and the golden age is over.
May 25
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GROSS, PART 37 - eras, golden ages, long decades: periodising the movies
I wrote this to avoid writing about Disney's big hit of 1946
May 25
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GROSS, PART 36 - sex, dread, money
Fake health education for anxious teens
May 18
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GROSS, PART 36, preview - seriously, what is this thing?
Hell is teenagers worrying about VD
May 10
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Steve Bowbrick
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Villeneuve's Dune - aristocratic excess
The distant future is nasty, brutish and so much sand in your picnic
May 8
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GROSS, PART 35 - A hymn to capital in the city of labour
Debt as happy ending
May 4
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April 2024
Hell-Bent for Election
A punchy campaign film from Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign
Apr 28
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