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Seven Deadly Sins

23/5/2021

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Spicywatch.com has just celebrated its seventh birthday! And how she has grown over the years from a humble dozen or so movies reviews when I first launched her in May 2014 to the massive 873 reviews that she now has under her belt. In the 7 years that Spicywatch has been on the internet I have had over 100,000 hits and on average, good old Spicywatch manages to rustle  up around 2500- 6500 readers a month.
So naturally, I had to celebrate the wonderful and joyful occasion of Spicywatch's 7th birthday, especially since last year I couldn't really do anything significant due to COVID-19.  So in the spirit of all things seven, I asked my guests to investigate the 7 Deadly Sins of gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy and then choose their favourite clips from any or all of those categories to share. 
The event was a small but meaningful gathering and everyone had clearly done their research because we traversed the genres like never before. To give you some idea of the range of the movies that had a clip in the mix, check out this movie list of just some that I can recall from last night's line up. 
GLUTTONY:
  • Mathilda
  • Austin Powers 
  • Spirited Away
  • Chocolat
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Stand by Me
  • The History of the World (Monty Python) 
PRIDE:
  • American Psycho 
  • Citizen Kane 
  • Monty Python - The Holy Grail 
  • The Joker 
ENVY:
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Moulin Rogue 
  • Zoolander 
  • Black Swan
LUST:
  • Death Proof
  • The Devil's Advocate 
  • What We Do in the Shadows 
  • The Witches of Eastwick
  • Fatal Attraction 
  • Team America 
  • American Beauty 
SLOTH:
  • Trainspotting
  • The Goonies 
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Avengers: Endgame 
WRATH:
  • Raging Bull
  • The Shining
  • Maleficent
  • Office Space 
  • The Lighthouse 
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Punch Drunk Love 
  • Brothers 
  • Kill Bill Vol 2
  • Silver Linings Playbook
GREED:
  • The Hobbit 
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Casino
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas 
  • Pocahontas 
  • The Mummy 
  • Marie Antoinette 

Many thanks to the few incredible souls that braved the weather to celebrate Spicywatch's birthday with me and thanks to all of my loyal readers that continue to check in, read my reviews, leave comments and support the growth of my little blog. 
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SE7EN 
Release Date: 1995
Rating: R 18+
Running Time: 127 mins 
If you're into mystery/crime drama and can handle a few graphic murder scenes, then you will probably get a lot out of Se7en. Stylishly delivered by David Fincher, this film received a lot of commercial success at the box offices internationally, and had tongues wagging when it was released in 1995. 
Newly transferred detective Mills (Brad Pitt) teams up with ready-to-retire veteran Somerset (Morgan Freeman) to try and track down a sadistic serial killer that is murdering his victims in correspondence to the seven deadly sins of gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy. 
There is a dark and broody undertone to this movie that is hard to ignore, Fincher has clearly gone to a seedy, violent and quite depressing place here. He has highlighted the moral decay of humanity with an overcasting shadow effect called bleach bypass that sustains all of the silver in a film stock, creating a deepened-darkening effect. It works, the film is as unsettling in premise as it is visually. If serial killer films upset you, then you should probably give this one a miss. 
FINAL SAY: What's in the box?
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