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4/5
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Eddie Harrison
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…feels like the exception to the bland rules of modern media, The Immortal Man tells a verboten history of criminal entrepreneurialism constantly in battle against an elite regime selling a different brand of anarchy…
Posted Mar 21, 2026
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3/5
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Heartburn
(1986)
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Eddie Harrison
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…each meal glimpsed in this movie has got a complete easy-to-follow recipe in the original book. It’s such a cool idea that it’s a shame that Ephron the writer doesn’t carry forward her own innovative idea…
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3/5
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My Fellow Americans
(1996)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a nice opportunity to see some old-stagers having fun…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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1/5
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Porky's II: The Next Day
(1983)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an utterly rotten film, and one to be avoided unless you have the lowest of low standards about what you watch…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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4/5
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Balls of Fury
(2007)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a slew of silly, often amusing gags that shows the creative team have the stones to genuinely entertain…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Porky's
(1981)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…actually far better than virtue-signalling critics might have you believe…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…delivers the goods in terms of unsettling an audience…’
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4/5
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Cop
(1988)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an engrossing crime story that’s more than just your average cop-show…’
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3/5
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Miss Congeniality
(2000)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a fluffy, undemanding two hours of entertainment…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Rat Race
(2001)
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Eddie Harrison
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while not the best example of the road race genre, it’s a guilty pleasure that does have some genuinely surprising bits of business.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Patrick
(2019)
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Eddie Harrison
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a defiantly odd film, and most certainly not for everyone
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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4/5
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Edge of Tomorrow
(2014)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…this is a model of how effective a summer blockbuster can be…’
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3/5
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The 'Burbs
(1989)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…long-winded satire that intrigues but doesn’t quite satisfy…’
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3/5
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The Mothman Prophecies
(2002)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a more than decent genre time-passer that just about escapes from the shadow of a goofy title…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Death of Me
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…no ground-breaker, but horror fans will find that this well-made shocker delivers just enough in nasty shocks and foreboding atmosphere…’
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Cocktail
(1988)
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Eddie Harrison
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...the unquestioning attitude of the film to the central character's arrested development in terms of women is less than impressive…
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5/5
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The Abyss
(1989)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘a plea for tolerance and mutual understanding, just what we need right now...
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4/5
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The Invisible Man
(1933)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…sits up with the best of Whale’s 1930’s work…’
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3/5
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History of the World: Part I
(1981)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…there’s enough smart and occasionally profound moments to make this worth a revival…’
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4/5
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Crash
(1996)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…burrows into one of the darkest areas of human behaviour and makes a virtue of horrific detail…’
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4/5
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Dead Silence
(2007)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…the result plays like a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits short story, and one with a punch-line…’
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3/5
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Marionette
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…the shrill nature of the quest eventually leads to fatigue rather than intensity…’
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4/5
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Kajillionaire
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…more than just another heist movie…’
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4/5
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
(2005)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a clever, funny, original take on the noir genre…’
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4/5
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Smokey and the Bandit
(1977)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…deluxe comfort food, an easy-going, hard-driving confection that hits the spot when undemanding fare is required…’
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4/5
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Clash of the Titans
(1981)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…the last hurrah for an old-school kind of film-making that was effectively blown out of the water by Star Wars…
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3/5
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The Titan
(2017)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an easy to watch mixture of sci-fi, horror and yes, romance…’
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4/5
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a deep dive into an artistic psyche that defies conventional explanation…’
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4/5
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Dementia
(1955)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…something a little more intellectual than the usual jump scares…’
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3/5
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Circus of Horrors
(1960)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an eccentric, quaint and yet effective slice of Grand Guignol…’
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4/5
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Being a Human Person
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an introduction for novices, plus a refresher course for those familiar with the Swede’s work…’
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4/5
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Honest Thief
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a decent enough time-passer that satisfies in its own way…’
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3/5
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Capone
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…admirers of the brisk, heroic gangster movie need not apply…’
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3/5
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Carmilla
(2019)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a more intimate, personal and PC story than Hammer horror fans would expect…’
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5/5
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Apocalypse Now
(1979)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a punishing, poetic, beautiful, horrible film about man’s inhumanity to man…’
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3/5
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Rebecca
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a lush, watchable but empty film that misses out on the class conflict, creepiness and drama…’
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4/5
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Mogul Mowgli
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a dark and difficult film to be sure, but a rewarding one…’
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4/5
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Shirley
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…does a good job of showing just how cruel creative people can be…’
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5/5
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The Shining
(1980)
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‘…one of the great cinematic spell-binders that’s somehow more than the sum of the various memorable parts…’
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3/5
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I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
(1967)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘with a takeaway message that hardly seems to be a scandal, that advertising men often aren’t nice, Winner’s film feels like fairly thin soup, but the rebellious attitudes featured here must have felt at least semi-revolutionary at the time.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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The Heat
(2013)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘an amusing cop movie parody from a female perspective…’
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4/5
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Moonlighting
(1982)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘ a welcome reminder of the kind of political, hard-edged, intelligent movies that used to be made…’
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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3/5
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King Ralph
(1991)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘an amusing B movie with flashes of A-movie wit…’
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4/5
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The Lady in the Portrait
(2016)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…benefits from capturing unfamiliar tropes of Chinese cinema…’
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3/5
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Clockwise
(1986)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…worth a look for fans of the sainted Cleese canon…’
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3/5
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Private Benjamin
(1980)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…a comedy light on laughs, but heavy with insight into the problems of being a woman…’
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4/5
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The Devil All the Time
(2020)
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Eddie Harrison
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The Devil All The Time has a literary feel, with lots of voice over, tonnes of plot, and a nihilistic feel that’s hard to shake...
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4/5
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Fear Is the Key
(1972)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…plays like a Bond movie, if the Bond movies ever considered Ian Fleming’s writings as source material…’
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3/5
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The Choirboys
(1977)
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Eddie Harrison
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‘…an eye-opener in terms of what a big studio might consider adult entertainment…’
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5/5
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Ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood)
(2000)
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Eddie Harrison
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...worth seeking out as one of the most perceptive films made about the vapidity of a Hollywood system that had blinkers on and was set in its nosebag ways at the time of filming
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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