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  • Great Character Moments in Film #4: THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT

    (Spoiler alert.) A movie in the all-too slim category of Best Xmas Films Evah (with Action), THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT stars Geena Davis as an amnesiac undercover assassin – I know, right? what’s not to like! – whose past is coming back to bite her, then spin her around, then bite her again. The bf…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #3: IN THE LAND OF WOMEN

    (Spoiler alert.) IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a great film with a title bad enough to be a novel title. Yeah, I’ve said it. Actually & tangentially, I once started putting together a list of ‘best movies with the worst titles, in history’ but it turned out to be mostly movies based on novels,…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #2: BOURNE IDENTITY

    (With SPOILERS) BOURNE IDENTITY has so much to recommend it: it’s an action movie, an amnesia story (gosh, but I love amnesia stories) set in some of the more stunning parts of Europe, & it’s the movie where Matt Damon discovered he could be an action hero. Or, as Bourne has often been described, ‘the…