Tag: Stan

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  Branded To Kill (1967)

  January 13, 2020

  1960s, Action, Crime, Japanese Cinema

  Every hip movie about a hitman must have taken something from the Japanese cult classic Branded To Kill (1967; Koroshi no rakuin); for example, Jim Jarmusch lifted a drain-pipe kill from it for Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai. Directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Branded To Kill is a dazzling, dark, funny… Read.

• Kill List (2011)

  October 24, 2019

  2010s, British Cinema, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

  A bad habit I indulge in occasionally is reading the wikipedia plot summaries of thrillers or horrors that I can’t be arsed watching. I had heard good things about Kill List (2011) and that didn’t stop me from spoiling it for myself when I was bored and reading what happened. Yet watching it for the… Read.