Following an emotional crisis, a thirty-ish woman agrees to go on a road-trip with a couple horny teenage boys across, Mexico to a mythical beach the boys made up. It's a raucous drunken adventure but also a beautiful bitter-sweet coming-of-age story. Two decades after I first watched this movie, it's a surprise to see how young Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna looked (they were about my age, then and now) but they're two amazing actors, even then. I'd anticipated…
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Deep End 1970
Awkward David Bowie-looking teenager Mike (John Moulder Brown) becomes dangerously obsessed with Jane Asher's beautiful only slightly older but sexually experienced Susan. Much of ‘Deep End’ is set within a dilapidated Victorian public baths, to the point where it got a little tiresome. So I enjoyed the extended sequence where Mike wonders the alleys of London’s "swinging 60s" Soho, back when it was really seedy, with him eating Burt Kwouk’s hot dogs, fending off the advances of sex workers and…
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Star Wars 1977
I re-watched this with my two young nephews (4 to 6 ish) who had not seen a live-action SW film before and was expecting them to perhaps get a little bored with the slow build up to the gang blasting "out of Mos Eisley". Not a bit of it, they were excited all the way through and were jumping up on the furniture afterwards shouting out their favourite bits. All those big moments still work the way they were intended…
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Jurassic Park 1993
Last time I re-watched 'Jurassic Park' it was the latest 4K digital version at the cinema, the film footage looked very sharp but the 1993 CGI renders looked noticeably soft and waxy in comparison. This time I went for a fan-made scan of a 35mm theatrical print, on a large 4K TV. This is the only way to watch this movie! The difference between the analogue and digital materials is once again invisible, as it would've been back in '93.…
