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    EALING STUDIOS CLASSICS

    Jul 07, 2019 2 minutes
    JOHN NUGENT

    ON ANY RAINY holiday, you are legally required to watch films. As old and fusty as possible. Today is a holiday, and it’s raining: ideal for a day’s worth of classics from Britain’s most famous film studio. Let’s get cracking...

    9AM DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)

    Given Ealing’s association with gentle comedies, it’s a singular pleasure to start with an anthology is not especially well-known but very influential (Matthew Holness cited it as an inspiration for ; Martin Scorsese is a fan), and though by modern standards it’s tepid rather than actually chilling — one character is haunted into never playing golf again, if you can imagine such a thing — it has a nice, proto- pace and a “decidedly improper” final twist in its framing device.

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    The Suicide Squad (Empire, December) looks very male and very white. It will be interesting to give it the once-over with the Bechdel-Wallace test and view the film through the lens of diversity. ANN, NUGENT, TAS From what we could see, the Squad

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