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GROSS/46 1955 - a very, very good boy
Lady and the Tramp is Disney's ultimate hymn to conformity.
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September 2024

GROSS/45 1954 BONUS - the other apartment
Billy WIlder's New York is brutal.
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GROSS/45 1954 - Rear Window - Hitchcock in the grid
In London or in New York, it's always location location location
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GROSS DIVERSION - two AIs in a trenchcoat
Listen to two entirely synthetic Americans analysing one of my DeMille reviews
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GROSS/44 1953 - Peter Pan: a timeless classic and a morbid incel fantasy
Which would be worse: never growing up or living forever?
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GROSS/43 1952 BONUS - ”When is that bald-headed son-of-a-bitch going to call lunch?”
Cecil B. DeMille remembered.
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August 2024

GROSS/43 1952 - what a bloody circus
Please make this the last Cecil B. DeMille film I have to watch.
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GROSS DIVERSION - Alex Garland's mythopoeia
Civil War is a film about photojournalism. About war photography. Also peripherally about a near-future war in America.
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GROSS/42 1951 part two - Quo Vadis is a twentieth-century Gothic cathedral
A vast, sanctimonious biblical epic.
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GROSS/42 1951 part one - Il Duce, Il Divo and the Roman Empire
Cinema in Europe after the war was an epic drama
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Steve Bowbrick

July 2024

GROSS DIVERSION - consider the critic
Seriously, it's a sunny day and there's a huge new Pixar animation I could be watching…
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GROSS/41 1950 - Cinderella is film noir
It's 1950. Noir has peaked. Walt Disney has something to say.
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