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Desperately Seeking Susan 1985
Slightly disappointed by this. Judging by the poster and LB banner, I’d always assumed it was a film about a burgeoning friendship between Arquette and Madonna, but they’re totally separated throughout the film in favour of a kinda lame mistaken identity comedy. I thought it would be more interesting as a film about Madonna’s allure - even though she’s not playing herself, but still playing a cool Madonna-type - and Arquette looking up to her and seeing her as a…
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In the Mouth of Madness 1994
Bonkers film. Carpenter goes all out with horror fun, but its most terrifying idea might be Sam Neil's slow realisation of living inside a novel, or on a more macro level, that we might have no control over our own lives and are at the mercy of some higher power with no free will of our own. The scene where Neil keeps trying to drive away and keeps getting put back on the road into the town with the mob…
