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Martin Chilton

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The Blues Brothers (1980) 71% EDIT “The film also has stunning car chases, choreographed like the dancing in a musical, as the Blues Brothers are pursued throughout Chicago, at one point even tearing through a shopping mall.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 18, 2020 Full Review Gallipoli (1981) 91% 5/5 EDIT “One of the most elegiac anti-war films ever made.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 7, 2017 Full Review Unforgiven (1992) 96% 5/5 EDIT “A sombre, insightful, genre-reinventing western, directed by a filmmaker acutely aware of the western's history, its limitations and the dubious truths of its legends.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 16, 2016 Full Review Blade Runner (1982) 89% 5/5 EDIT “A masterpiece of dystopian science fiction on film.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 2, 2015 Full Review WarGames (1983) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The chase sequences with government agents are tame but the film builds to a tense (and witty) conclusion at the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker in Colorado Springs.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 31, 2015 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% 5/5 EDIT “A sci-fi thriller of palpable, nerve-tingling tension, with Sigourney Weaver -- playing warrant officer Ellen Ripley -- in stunning form.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 30, 2015 Full Review Midnight Run (1988) 95% 5/5 EDIT “The interplay between the two leads is pure gold.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 27, 2015 Full Review Saving Private Ryan (1998) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Steven Spielberg's film is not perfect: it plays its strongest card first, the middle section is slightly uneven, and there are sallies into sentimentality. But it is a modern war classic.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 8, 2015 Full Review Airplane! (1980) 97% 5/5 EDIT “The really great thing about Airplane! is that the jokes undercut your expectations so deftly.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 8, 2015 Full Review Way Out West (1937) 100% EDIT “Contains one of the most charming dance sequences in cinema history.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 28, 2015 Full Review Winchester '73 (1950) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Winchester '73 changed the way cinema audiences saw the Western, because it featured a more complex idea of the noble hero of the west -- a man plagued by personal problems and violent impulses.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 17, 2015 Full Review Ben-Hur (1959) 88% 5/5 EDIT “Although it is a spectacle film, the story of how a man takes on the tyranny of the Romans, with all sorts of horrible consequences to himself and his family, is powerful and gripping.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 1, 2015 Full Review Mary Poppins (1964) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Van Dyke's energy is prodigious (especially when he leaps around with a gang of sooty chimney-sweeps on the London rooftops) and the songs are classics.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 1, 2015 Full Review The 39 Steps (1935) 96% 5/5 EDIT “The scene in which Mr Memory is asked at the London Palladium "What are the 39 Steps?" remains one of 20th-century cinema's most gripping moments.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 30, 2014 Full Review White Christmas (1954) 76% 4/5 EDIT “A good musical with a lot of star power.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 22, 2014 Full Review Die Hard (1988) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Yippee-ki-yay, action fans.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 28, 2014 Full Review Down by Law (1986) 88% 5/5 EDIT “Down by Law is a delight, right down to the unexpected last scene.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 9, 2014 Full Review Marnie (1964) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Hitchcock was criticised for bring shallow psychology into the film (Hedren's character is afraid of the colour red) but some of their exchanges - the film was based on a novel by Winston Graham - are sharp and droll.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 31, 2014 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% 5/5 EDIT “There is a charm and vitality to Raiders of the Ark, which Spielberg later admitted was "the first movie where I actually shot the movie without thinking".” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 24, 2013 Full Review
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