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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow 'Really given me sleepless nights': readers on their scariest movie endings by Guardian readers Nov 1, 2022 After Guardian writers shared the endings that gave them nightmares, you replied with your picks, from Seven to Under the Skin Major spoilers ahead After the slow burn, creeping dread of the film, the last 10 minutes are just full out batshit, with the mother bashing her head against the underside of the attic door repeatedly, the naked people grinning, the sawing and then the final *cluck*. Continue reading... Continue Reading The Last Heist review – grim-faced Brit gangster thriller is Reservoir Bodge by Mike McCahill Nov 1, 2022 A ripe crew of wrong’uns hole up in a bar to pick over a raid gone awry, but does deliver one welcome departure from cliche You might find it reassuring that, even as the pound yo-yos and democracy unravels, there will forever be a corner of the British film industry that is grim-faced geezers in boozers toting shotguns and plotting shenanigans. This very late entry in a cycle initiated during the Blair administration attempts something a little more characterful than usual, as signalled by the presence of the great Perry Benson in the prologue as a bar owner who corks it before giving up his life insurance details to his son. The Last Heist then involves an hour of perilously muggy business, as the lad (co-writer Michael Head, sporting a marked resemblance to the young Frank Harper) recalls his old gang to Perry’s bar to work out where their raid on the recalcitrant insurers went bloodily awry. It’s a bit Reservoir Bodge: there’s much gruff talk of codes, and a liberal scattering of the other C-word, before the film pulls a loopy twist from an otherwise threadbare sleeve. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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