Live and Let Die (1973)

12 May

You ain’t gonna see the sunlight unless you answer me!

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

11 May

I came here to drink myself to death.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)

10 May

The heathen is here…

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

9 May

All they have to do is to eat three or four children and there’d be the most appalling publicity.

The Birthday Party (1931)

8 May

Give one little blow like this…

All the President’s Men (1976)

5 May

Woodward. Bernstein. You’re both on the story. Now don’t fuck it up.

Lawrence of Belgravia (2011)

3 May

Lawrence, the erstwhile singer songwriter of 80’s post-punk band Felt and latterly front man of the ludicrously monikered Go Kart Mozart is the eponymous subject of Paul Kelly’s Lawrence of Belgravia.

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Trading Places (1983)

3 May

Is there a problem officers?

Dark City (1998)

2 May

First there was darkness. Then came the strangers.

Superheroes (2011)

1 May

In a perverse sort of sense, documentarians play a very similar role to that of an investigative journalist. They sense a story, pursue it endlessly, albeit with the permission of their subject and eventually bring that unreported story to the masses. It’s an important vocation imbued with passion and dedication; and yet while the aim of the documentarian is invariably didactic, his or her work is more often than not rip-roaringly entertaining.

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