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David Cairns
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Film maker, film critic, film teacher, film lover, fool for film
I would like, if I may, to take you on...
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All-Star
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The most ambitious superhero movie ever made came out in 1968.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Lex Neal, a Buster Keaton gagman, co-wrote this kind of incredible all-Black comedy from 1941...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by David Cairns
#autism #adhd #neurodivergence Something happened when I first joined this platform that has radicalised me. I made a stupid, overfamiliar post to someone extremely famous, the most high profile person I've ever been in contact with, and after initially following me after liking one of my skeets -
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The (new) stages of movie stardom:
Who's Ian Holm?
Get me Ian Holm!
Get me a digitally de-aged Ian Holm!
Get me a CGI Ian Holm!
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Two proposals for a new Marx Bros film. There may be some scheduling problems. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/a...
A Night at the Movies
Two ideas for Marx Bros movies. I may be slightly late to this party. 1930. Troubled Paramount Pictures, teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, engages the Marx Bros to make their first movie. The t…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Movie trailer mashup Monday -
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Colossus
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November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In which Howard Hawks swipes a spitoon from Joseph Von Sternberg. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/t...
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Dunno about anyone else but I'm assuming Trump's defence will be "It was just locker room rape."
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Finished off Aldrich's WORLD FOR RANSOM which has a lot of nice shots but no good scenes.
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Not playing with a full decoupage
It’s pronounced Dew-RAY-ah, as I understand it, in case you wondered. Anyway, IF Robert Aldrich’s debut feature WORLD FOR RANSOM is intended as a parody of the private eye genre, Dan Du…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
THE BEATLES GET BACK. In which Peter Jackson swallows Michael Lindsay-Hogg and tries to digest him. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...
Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids
No, we’re not doing noirs all month, that might get monotonous. I do love a good noir, though. By way of a change, I just finished watching THE BEATLES GET BACK which I’d have to admit …
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November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Jacob Elordi is good and all, but he's not, like, better than Peter Hinwood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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11/7/52: B #filmnoir maestro Phil Karlson w/Kansas City Confidential - #noirvember
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November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I just knew I'd like MURDER BY CONTRACT this time, even though I didn't last time. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I look at a single take from TOUCH OF EVIL. But not the usual one.
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A Touch of “Touch”
So yes, TOUCH OF EVIL. A single shot. No, not that one. I thought I’d try closely analysing a little bit of it I always enjoyed, but I quickly found so much detail there that I’ll have …
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
THE DEVIL'S RAIN is a bad movie with a good movie trying to get out, but the good movie is treated like Whack-a-Mole. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/i...
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM