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Luca (2021) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Enrico Casarosa, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jacob Tremblay, Luca, Pixar
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‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25 – Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Musical, Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
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Review in Brief: Nobody (2021)
More melancholy than TAKEN and far funnier than JOHN WICK, NOBODY doesn’t exactly lay new ground for films of its ilk but is really rather satisfying on its own terms. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a suburban loser stuck in … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Action, Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Ilya Naishuller, John Wick, Nobody, Taken, Thriller
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Prone to Bouts of Mania, Narcissism and Power Failure: Watching High-Rise and Snowpiercer in 2021
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Ben Wheatley, Bong Joon-ho, High-Rise, Satire, Sci-fi, Snowpiercer
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Review in Brief: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Certainly less lean and no-nonsense than the first instalment and too reliant on stupid horror movie characters acting like stupid horror movie characters, A QUIET PLACE PART II is still a mostly solid follow-up. After a pretty breathtaking opening flashback … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged A Quiet Place Part II, Horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Sci-fi
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Review in Brief: Psycho Goreman (2020)
If it wasn’t for all the splattery gore, this would be a great feelgood Amblin-style kids adventure movie. As it is, PSYCHO GOREMAN is an unholy union between FLASH GORDON and the TOXIC AVENGER, which is admittedly odd but works … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Comedy, Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Psycho Goreman, Sci-fi, Steven Kostanski
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Review in Brief: Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Make no mistake, SPIRAL is a SAW movie, it’s not a bold new direction for the franchise. Bafflingly someone says at one point “Jigsaw didn’t target cops”, which makes you wonder how closely people have been watching the other films … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Rock, Darren Lynn Bousman, Horror, Saw, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Thriller
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Review in Brief: Oxygen (2021)
An amnesiac woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a sci-fi cryo pod and has to figure out why she is there and how to escape using her logic and an only intermittently helpful AI (Mathieu Amalric). There have been lots … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Aja, Mathieu Amalric, Mélanie Laurent, Mystery, Netflix, Oxygen, Sci-fi, Thriller
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Review in Brief: Army of the Dead (2021)
Zack Snyder is clearly relieved to be done with superheroes for now and has returned to the genre that broke him through: the zombie movie. Unfortunately ARMY OF THE DEAD is an over-stuffed and largely ponderous affair. The promising premise … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Action, Army of the Dead, Matthias Schweighöfer, Netflix, Tig Notaro, Zack Snyder, Zombie Movie
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