January 2024 in The Metropolitan has featured a lot of endings, so here’s an ending to end them all: the twist of The Usual Suspects (1995).
This is a reading of our April 2022 review of the film for our ‘Can we show the kids?’ strand.
The Usual Suspects revisited
Revisiting the films that thrilled you as a youth can be a bittersweet experience. What horrifying things will they reveal about the teenager you once were, to the teenager on your sofa? Forewarned is fore-armed. Can we show the kids? The Usual Suspects
Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp
Related essays from January 2024 include:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Every generation recasts the cultural canon, but the Boomers, with their socio-political firepower, blew it all up. From Monty Python to Spike Lee, from Prince to Wolf Hall, they scorned the old orthodoxies, rediscovered forgotten gems and created a whole canon. And then never stopped going on about it. But were their choices… ok?
Remembrance of the Sixties
At some point in the summer of 1987, my girlfriend and I were trying to decide what film to go and see. One movie in particular had caught my eye but her father - who was a film critic for the Times - persuaded us that it wasn’t worth it. He recommended Spielberg’s adaptation of J. G.Ballard’s
The Wasp Factory
With three TV channels and no internet, we were raised by Puffins. For long stretches of our lives reading was the best (and, sometimes, the only) way to pass the time. In X Libris we return to the books that made us and analyse what makes them great.
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