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Sam Sewell-Peterson
I'm not paid to write about film - I do it because I love it. Favourite filmmakers include Bong Joon-ho, Danny Boyle, the Coen Brothers, Nicolas Winding Refn, Clio Barnard, Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Verhoeven, Taika Waititi and Edgar Wright. All reviews and articles are original works written and owned by me. They represent one man's opinion, and I'm more than happy to engage in civilised debate if you disagree.
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Tag Archives: 13th
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2010-2019
We never did decide on a name for this decade that didn’t sound completely stupid did we? Thank goodness for the insight and escapism that cinema offers because the world has been heading for disaster at an alarming rate as … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged 13th, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, A Ghost Story, Avengers: Endgame, Baby Driver, Best of, Blade Runner 2049, Drive, Ex Machina, For Sama, I Lost My Body, Jojo Rabbit, Nina Forever, Our Little Sister, Parasite, Private Life, Room, Searching, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, Tell Me Who I Am, The Farewell, The Hunt, The Illusionist, The Nightingale, The Rider, The Two Popes, We Are the Best!, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Wild Rose
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Review: Us (2019)
Well that’s 2 for 2 for Jordan Peele. He’s become a vibrant, distinctive and essential American filmmaking voice in what seems like no time at all, and while US can be compared to GET OUT on certain thematic levels, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged 13th, Ava DuVernay, Get Out, Horror, Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong'o, Thriller, Us, Winston Duke
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Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)
I’m still reeling from the final moments of BLACKKKLANSMAN – no other film of 2018 will pack quite as forceful a denouement. Nowhere else is Spike Lee’s mastery of blending of subjective emotion-driven storytelling with documentary filmmaking techniques more apparent, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged 13th, Adam Driver, Alec Baldwin, Ava DuVernay, Biopic, Black Comedy, BlackKklansman, Drama, James Brown, John David Washington, Oscars, Ron Stallworth, Spike Lee, Topher Grace
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Review: 13th (2016)
Anyone under the misapprehension that film can’t impact the real world, that it’s escapism and nothing more, should take note of the moment in Ava DuVernay’s documentary highlighting how DW Griffith’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION not only revitalised the … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th, Academy Awards, Ava DuVernay, Documentary, Oscars, The Birth of a Nation
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