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The Light Shines in a Trenchcoat

May 5, 2014May 4, 2014 ~ Jakebe ~ Leave a comment

I've recently come to appreciate the singular pleasure of a good detective story. I've been on a bit of a run with them of late, and I think it started with the broken-down post-millennial duo of True Detective's Hart and Cohle. It took Nic Pizzolatto's spitshine of the detective story to really get me to … Continue reading The Light Shines in a Trenchcoat

The AFI Top 100 Films: Chinatown (#19)

October 23, 2013October 22, 2013 ~ Jakebe ~ Leave a comment

Chinatown (1974) Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston Written by Robert Towne Directed by Roman Polanski Chinatown is a hell of a noir film. Set in the Los Angeles of the 1930s, it uses the acquisition of water by land barons to explore deeper themes of moral bankruptcy and how one man's remorseless … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Chinatown (#19)

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