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Film Responses

Middling Forties Movies

Starring David Bowie

The Linguini Incident (1991, Robert Shepard)

Absolute Beginners (1986, Julien Temple)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicolas Roeg)

The Hunger (1983, Tony Scott)

Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie star in LABYRINTH, directed by Jim Henson for Tri-Star Pictures.

Labyrinth (1986, Jim Henson)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, Martin Scorsese)

Starring Toni Collette

Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster)

The Staircase (2022) s01e08 – America’s Sweetheart or: Time Over Time

The Staircase (2022) s01e07 – Seek and Ye Shall

The Staircase (2022) s01e06 – Red in Tooth and Claw

The Staircase (2022) s01e05 – The Beating Heart

The Staircase (2022) s01e04 – Common Sense

Halloween: Timeline One

Halloween 5 (1989, Dominique Othenin-Girard)

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle)

Halloween (1978, John Carpenter), the television version

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle), the producer’s cut

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)

Halloween II (1981, Rick Rosenthal), the television version

Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)

Starring Woody Harrelson

Wilson (2017, Craig Johnson)

Wag the Dog (1997, Barry Levinson)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021, Andy Serkis)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh)

Solo (2018, Ron Howard)

Jim Caviezel stars in THE THIN RED LINE, directed by Terrence Malick for 20th Century Fox.

The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)

Middling Mid-2010s Movies

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zach Snyder), the ultimate edition

Starring Sylvester Stallone

Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)

Rocky IV (1985, Sylvester Stallone), the director’s cut

Tango & Cash (1989, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

Rambo: Last Blood (2019, Adrian Grunberg)

Creed II (2018, Steven Caple Jr.)

Cop Land (1997, James Mangold)

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

The Limey (1999, Steven Soderbergh)

No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh)

Out of Sight (1998, Steven Soderbergh)

Fallen Angels (1993) s01e03 – The Quiet Room

Haywire (2011, Steven Soderbergh)

Winston (1987, Steven Soderbergh)