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Wilf the Mighty Worrier: Saves the world

Georgia Pritchett

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Things Wilf was worried about before: stuffed animals, peanut butter, creepy crawlies that have...

Farts Around the World

Anita Pass

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Join us on a whirlwind tour of international flatulence, in which we explore questions such as: What...

Metronome HD - with Perfect Timing!

Music and Education

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Whether or not you're an aspiring recording artist, music teacher or student this highly accurate...

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young...

David McK (3557 KP) rated Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) in Movies

Jun 23, 2020

Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)

2019 | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

7.9

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Animated kids movie, starring what might-as-well-be Aardman Animation's new mascot Shaun the Sheep (who has seemingly eclipsed Wallace and Gromit ever since first appearing in 'A Close Shave'), in which Shaun must escort a small Alien back to his spacecraft, that has crash-landed near Mossy Bottom Farm.

Taking it's cue from the silent movies of yore, there is no dialogue in this - with, of those who can talk, everyone talking in gibberish - while there are also plenty of sneaky sci-fi references peppered throughout its runtime,

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Gary Giddins recommended M (Movie) (1931) in Movies (curated)

"No filmmaker gets under my skin more consistently than Fritz Lang, and while M lacks some of the paranoid extravagance of his silent fantasies, it is flawless. Peter Lorre ingeniously incarnates the evolution from lizard to man, and the director’s every shot and sound underscores the excitement of cinema in the process of discovering its own power. One of the disc’s extras finds Claude Chabrol unsuccessfully attempting to mimic a Lang camera move. The new Criterion print, with a corrected aspect ratio and restored fade-out line, burnishes the film’s deathless vitality."

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Hossein Amini recommended Thief (1981) in Movies (curated)

Thief (1981)

1981 | Action, Drama, Mystery

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"Like Melville, Michael Mann is a master of silent storytelling, but he is also one of the best writers of dialogue I know. There’s a scene between James Caan and Tuesday Weld in a diner that goes on for ten minutes, but you never get bored for a second. They go from being virtual strangers to lovers in the course of a conversation, and you don’t question it. Not only do his criminals feel authentic when they talk about their profession but their inarticulate attempts at declaring their love feel just as true."

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Laura Mulvey recommended People on Sunday (1930) in Movies (curated)

People on Sunday (1930)

1930 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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"When I became a film academic in the 1980s, I was allocated a class through which I discovered silent (or rather non-sync-sound) films. I had never appreciated the extraordinary beauty of this cinema and, most of all, I loved films of the very late twenties, made on the cusp of the transition—for instance, Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld and The Docks of New York. People on Sunday is an amazing film document of Berlin just before the Nazis came to power, and is also a “young modern woman” film."

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