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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: Adam Driver
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018/2020) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Adam Driver, Fantasy, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
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Review: Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Fans, as a rule don’t really know what they want – only what they don’t. A lot of Star Wars fans didn’t want things to go the way they did in THE LAST JEDI, so JJ Abrams seems primarily concerned … Continue reading
Marriage Story (2019) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Adam Driver, Drama, Laura Dern, Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach, Ray Liotta, Scarlett Johansson
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2018, Part 2
Before I get down to looking at the very best and the very worst films of 2018 (Part 1 of this list can be found here) I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a couple more that weren’t necessarily my … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged Adam Driver, Avengers: Infinity War, BlackKklansman, David Yates, Extinction, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, JK Rowling, John David Washington, Kathryn Hahn, Mandy, Marvel, Meet the Feebles, Michael Peña, Netflix, Nicolas Cage, Paul Giamatti, Peter Jackson, Private Life, Shoplifters, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spike Lee, Steve McQueen, The Cloverfield Paradox, The Happytime Murders, They Shall Not Grow Old, Tom Hardy, Venom, Widows
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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 in Brief: Logan Lucky (2017)
I’ve never been a fan of Steven Soderbergh’s OCEAN’S ELEVEN: I find it insufferably smug, over-stylised and that it thinks it’s far cleverer than it actually is. Thankfully LOGAN LUCKY doesn’t share such pretensions, nailing on what it is from … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Adam Driver, Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Logan Lucky, Ocean's Eleven, Seth MacFarlane, Steven Soderbergh
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Review: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
There was a lovely little moment in THE FORCE AWAKENS where Leia (Carrie Fisher) after reuniting with Han (Harrison Ford) comments with a wry smile, “Same jacket” and her paramour responds, with mock hurt in his voice, “No, new jacket”. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Adam Driver, Ade Edmondson, Andy Serkis, Benicio del Toro, Blockbuster, Brick, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Fantasy, Gwendoline Christie, Harrison Ford, Kelly Marie Tran, Looper, Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Sci-fi, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode VIII, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi
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Review: Silence (2016)
The release of a new Martin Scorsese film is still something to mark on your calendar, but perhaps the undoubtedly ambitious guilt trek SILENCE was too personal for his own good. Two Portuguese Jesuits travel to Japan to investigate reports … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Adam Driver, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Garfield, Apocalypse Now, Drama, Film, Historical Drama, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Movies, Silence, The Mission
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Review: Midnight Special (2016)
Jeff Nichols has followed up doom-laden psychological horror TAKE SHELTER and big-hearted fable MUD with MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, his biggest film to date. While there’s plenty in it to talk about, it’s admittedly far wonkier than what has come before. A … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Adam Driver, Drama, Film, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeff Nichols, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Shannon, Midnight Special, Movies, Mud, Sam Shepard, Sci-fi, Take Shelter, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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This is not going to go the way you think…
Something happened last night (or this morning in the UK). There was a disturbance in the force and millions of voices cried out in jubilation, not to be silenced until December. The first full trailer for STAR WARS: THE LAST … Continue reading →