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Sam Sewell-Peterson
Writer and film fanatic fond of black comedies, sci-fi, animation and films about dysfunctional families.
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Long Live My Happy Head (2022) Review – BFI Flare
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Austen McCowan, Documentary, Long Live My Happy Head, Will Hewitt
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Morbius (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Daniel Espinosa, Horror, Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Morbius, Superhero Movie
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Review in Brief: Flee (2021)
FLEE, an animated memoir/documentary telling of Afghan migrant Amin’s remarkable journey, is some powerful stuff. I’ve heard some people find the animation somehow alienating, that it lessons Amin’s story but I just don’t agree. The style of the animation, almost … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Animation, Documentary, Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Oscars, World Cinema
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Turning Red (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Domee Shi, Family Film, Pixar, Rosalie Chaing, Sandra Oh, Turning Red
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Best Animated Feature Oscar Winners Ranked
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Big Hero 6, Brave, Coco, Finding Nemo, Frozen, Happy Feet, Inside Out, Oscars, Rango, Ratatouille, Shrek, Soul, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spirited Away, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Up, WALL-E, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Zootopia
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CODA (2021) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Coda, Drama, Emilia Jones, Oscars, Sian Heder, Troy Kotsur
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The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Abbi Jacobson, Animation, Comedy, Danny McBride, Family Film, Jeff Rowe, Michael Rianda, Sony, The Mitchells vs the Machines
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The Batman (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Blockbuster, Matt Reeves, Robert Pattinson, Superhero Movie, The Batman, Zoë Kravitz
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Review in Brief: The House (2022)
THE HOUSE is an unexpected, twisted delight and is unlikely to be unseated as the most striking animated feature of 2022 until ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE arrives towards the end of the year. This is an anthology of stories revolving around … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Animation, Emma De Swaef, Jarvis Cocker, Marc James Roels, Mia Goth, Netflix, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza, The House
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Review in Brief: The King’s Man (2021)
THE KING’S MAN just doesn’t work on so many levels. It has a big tone problem to begin with, and far too many scenes of people standing around explaining what World War I was. Sworn pacifist the Duke of Oxford … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Action, Harris Dickinson, Kingsman, Matthew Vaughn, Ralph Fiennes, The King’s Man
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