tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88871066621495163372024-03-18T21:04:00.393+00:00The Incredible SuitThe movie blog that really wants you to buy HITCHOLOGYThe Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.comBlogger1189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-24925290172595132492024-03-18T16:12:00.003+00:002024-03-18T21:03:15.066+00:00HITCHOLOGY is out now!They thought it would never happen, and by "they" I very much mean "I", but my first book, HITCHOLOGY: A film-by-film guide to the style and themes of Alfred Hitchcock, is available to buy now! Just click the ridiculously fit image below and choose from the vast selection of retailers:Once again, here comes some precision-targeted marketing to convince you to buy HITCHOLOGY, even though it's as The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-54981443274342703442023-10-30T14:51:00.001+00:002024-02-13T11:11:50.392+00:00Coming soon: HITCHOLOGY!If you've been feeling an aching, empty chasm in your soul for about the last four years, then that's my fault, sorry. Things have been a bit quiet here lately, and if it wasn't for Bond popping up and popping off two years ago, things would have been deafeningly silent.Anyway I can't promise anything's going to change, but here's the reason for the waffle-vacuum: I've been "writing" a "book", The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-6294062015959092782021-10-01T12:58:00.002+01:002021-10-01T13:04:06.526+01:00No Time To Die: The long goodbye"COME ONNN!!!" Not my words, ladies and gentlemen, but the words of a man who looks exactly like me, shares my name and, OK fine, is me. I am mildly embarrassed to say that I bellowed these words out at considerable volume as I watched the gunbarrel sequence of No Time To Die dance across a massive screen during the film's world premiere at swanky ponce-palace the Royal Albert Hall. Now the Albo The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-48148268996560705922020-04-22T18:40:00.002+01:002020-04-23T12:24:34.756+01:00Working on a thing
Might be quiet round here for a while.
The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-19424278426690623772019-12-23T00:30:00.001+00:002021-01-01T20:41:38.101+00:00The Incredible Suit's Top 10 Films Of 2019It's the end of the year, what did you expect?
JOKER
Todd Phillips' revisionist take on one of pop culture's most iconic villains surprised the shit out of me: not because I thought the idea of a Joker origin film was an inherently bad one (although I did, tbf), but because it was a good Todd Phillips film. The argument over whether it was right to transform Gotham's cackling symbol of chaos The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-26701002789522660642019-12-04T15:48:00.002+00:002019-12-04T18:33:18.995+00:0025 Bits Of Bond 25: It's the No Time To Die trailer breakdown!
For those of us beginning to wonder if the promise of another Bond film was nothing more than a vicious rumour, the first trailer for Cary Fukunaga's No Time To Die dropped today, proving at the very least that 156 seconds of this movie definitely exist. So what can we learn from this exciting blast of Bondery? Let's find out!
Our first look at the brand new Bond film for the brand new The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-75691316391578903502019-11-22T00:30:00.000+00:002019-11-22T09:09:09.486+00:00Kubism, Epilogue: Stanley Kubranked
You probably thought you'd seen the last of my Stanley Kubewaffle, what with Eyes Wide Shut being his last film and all. Well, I didn't come all this way just to make phenomenally incisive and original observations into each of his thirteen features and three shorts, you know: this is a film blog, so I am bound by convention to rank each of those films in order of my irrelevant preference. So The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-25675018333475481732019-11-15T00:30:00.000+00:002019-12-22T22:56:58.409+00:00Kubism, Part 13: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Stanley Kubrick might not have released any films between 1987 and 1999, but it wasn't for the want of trying. Holocaust movie The Aryan Papers, a long-gestating project (is there any other kind with Kubrick?), was abandoned partly because it was depressing the shit out of him and partly because Steven Spielberg beat him to it, knocking out Schindler's List in roughly the time it took The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-78815352788502620932019-10-25T00:30:00.000+01:002019-11-22T10:07:29.701+00:00Kubism, Part 12: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Having exhausted all the major movie genres except westerns, pornography and Bond films (omg just imagine), Stanley Kubrick returned to his old stomping ground - the war movie - for what would be his penultimate feature. He'd bungled the genre in Fear And Desire, nailed it in Paths Of Glory, bathed and oiled it in Spartacus and pulled its pants down to make it look silly in Dr. Strangelove, butThe Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-47127543333633482502019-10-14T00:30:00.002+01:002021-01-01T20:42:04.313+00:00LFF 2019: The Irishman
The Irishman is the second film that could truly be classed as 'late Scorsese'. Like Silence before it, but a bazillion miles away from The Wolf Of Wall Street before that, Marty's latest is an understated piece that sees him in contemplative mood. It's a return to the worlds of Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Casino that he's become most famous for (despite making over 20 other, non-mob-related The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-52834716092148974962019-10-11T00:30:00.000+01:002019-10-11T17:12:20.104+01:00LFF 2019: Knives Out
If Kenneth Branagh's do-over of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express has ushered in a new age of whodunnits, then all power to him. I haven't seen that film, because despite somehow avoiding spoilers for an 83-year-old story for my entire life, someone who shall remain nameless ruined the end for me in the kitchen at work, yeah thanks CATHY. Fortunately even she couldn't spoil Knives The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-24382459859051561492019-10-09T00:30:00.000+01:002019-10-10T20:58:12.791+01:00LFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit
Got to be honest guys, Taika Waititi has never really set my world on fire. I like where he's coming from, and I enjoy most of his stuff (the best of it is still Flight Of The Conchords), but I've always felt that some of the jokes have been flubbed, or the storytelling has lacked a little complexity. Jojo Rabbit suffers from the same issues, but to a lesser extent, and while it's not flawless The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-9108243354182443452019-10-07T00:30:00.000+01:002019-10-08T18:04:23.593+01:00LFF 2019: The Lighthouse
A man takes a job maintaining an old building in a remote, isolated location in order to get away from his past. One of his predecessors, he discovers, went mad and killed himself. Human company is extremely limited and generally annoying. While there, he begins to lose his mind; nightmares seep into waking life until he isn't sure what's real any more. At some point, someone is chased by a The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-87918783655842743682019-10-04T00:30:00.000+01:002019-10-04T10:56:04.308+01:00LFF 2019: The King
I may have reached the limit of my David Michôd fanboying. Animal Kingdom (2010) is still a scuzzily great crime drama, and The Rover (2014) is an underrated dystopian nightmare about where humanity is heading (to Hell, in a wheeled, overflowing commode). War Machine (2017), however, was a cultural atrocity; an actual abuse of my human rights. Nevertheless I stood by Michôd, and The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-8494787454902701312019-09-20T00:30:00.000+01:002019-10-25T10:52:44.475+01:00Kubism, Part 11: The Shining (1980)
With a Napoleon-shaped bee still buzzing around in the Kubrick bonnet, it occurred to Big Stan that if he was ever going to get his dream project about the short dead dude off the ground, he was somehow going to have to make a metric fucktonne of money for a studio in order for them to finance it. Barry Lyndon had spectacularly failed to do this, so - much as he had once had the terrific wheezeThe Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-84809689998875181122019-08-16T00:30:00.000+01:002019-09-20T09:50:21.281+01:00Kubism, Part 10: Barry Lyndon (1975)
Having spent years fruitlessly dicking around with his doomed film about Napoleon, Stanley Kubrick found himself perched atop an impressive - but frustratingly useless - mountain of research relating to 18th century Europe. Scrabbling around for a chance to utilise all this material, Stan landed upon an 1844 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which, conveniently, would also allow him to The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-16730446729414334562019-08-07T00:30:00.000+01:002019-08-07T14:08:56.980+01:00Domino: De Palma's latest is a pizza shit
It probably escaped your notice, but a new Brian De Palma film was released the other day. That's right: a fresh cut from the director of Carrie, Scarface and The Untouchables just bypassed UK cinemas entirely, immediately becoming just one more pathetic tear in the ocean of home entertainment. It's a sad state of affairs when the new movie from the director who launched the The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-50493877767255974782019-07-26T00:30:00.000+01:002019-08-16T12:55:44.067+01:00Kubism, Part 9: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick didn't have much time for heroes. You can probably count the number of traditionally heroic characters in his films on the fingers of one hand, and still have two fingers left to stick up to the world. Davey Gordon in Killer's Kiss goes out of his way to save his neighbour from a B-movie crime lord, Paths Of Glory's Colonel Dax moves heaven and earth to bring some semblance of The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-32375718227054737902019-07-12T00:30:00.000+01:002019-08-16T12:57:59.126+01:00Kubism, Part 8: 2OO1: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Dr. Strangelove had failed to successfully treat Stanley Kubrick's nuclear itch. The ointment of satire clearly wasn't strong enough to clear up Stan's rash of pessimism regarding the human race's inevitable freefall into self-destruction; stronger medication was required. Perhaps drawing on his abandoned idea of a framing device for Strangelove in which aliens passed pitiful judgement on The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-55061353558244729652019-07-01T00:30:00.000+01:002019-07-03T10:20:05.555+01:00Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter Parker's Eurothwip
***CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME, OBVIOUSLY***
True believers rejoice: we are currently living in a golden age of Spider-Man. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 may have achieved the status of best superhero film ever in a recent highly-respected and influential poll, but that film was something of a one-off. We now find ourselves in the privileged position of being gifted five great The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-91072144500057198092019-06-28T10:24:00.001+01:002019-06-28T10:28:24.998+01:00Yesterday: For no one (except Ed Sheeran fans)
I can't imagine how much time, effort and money went into securing the rights to The Beatles' music for its use in Danny Boyle's Yesterday. I'm picturing Paul McCartney sitting on a solid gold throne, perched on a balcony made of the purest crystal, jutting out from a mansion constructed entirely from £50 notes stuck together with glue made from the boiled remains of history's finest The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-14953833369935526252019-06-24T00:30:00.000+01:002019-08-26T22:16:03.409+01:00The Incredible Suit is 10 years old, so here are its 100 best films obviously!
Unbelievably (despite time being a constant), it's one-tenth of a century today since this ridiculous excuse for a website winked into existence. 1,168 blog posts later, somebody at The Incredible Suit HQ thought it would be a good idea to celebrate by collating the entire team's 100 favourite films and ranking them for you to ignore at your leisure. So we took all the votes, assigned points, The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-69236842374834544752019-06-17T00:30:00.000+01:002019-08-16T12:58:17.262+01:00Kubism, Part 7: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
We're roughly half way through our nursery school-level investigation of the films of Stanley Kubrick, and it's been a bumpy ride so far. We've seen the good (The Killing, Paths Of Glory, Lolita), the bad (Fear And Desire, Spartacus, oh God The Seafarers) and the middling (Killer's Kiss), and so it seems appropriate that this time round we're faced with The Kube's most divisive film. Which is The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-5559075785442404012019-06-07T08:00:00.000+01:002019-08-16T12:58:32.524+01:00Kubism, Part 6: Lolita (1962)
With the grand folly of Spartacus mercifully over, Stanley Kubrick turned his back on epic melodrama and sweaty blokes in their underpants. For his next project all the conflict would be internalised in the tortured soul of just one sweaty bloke, and this time it would be a fourteen-year-old girl in the skimpies. Undeterred by the possibility that a quinquagenarian lusting after a teenager The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887106662149516337.post-58676245545167585682019-05-29T14:35:00.001+01:002019-05-29T15:39:21.501+01:00Godzilla: King Of The Monsters: What the fuck
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters is a fucking disgrace. It is boring, messy and galactically stupid. It is not so much written as shat, and less directed than allowed to splatter onto the screen with all the nuance, skill and visual flair of a bucket of sick dropped from a great height. It is the worst film I've seen for at least three years. With a budget of around $200 million, it is a The Incredible Suithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155334068211136650noreply@blogger.com6