Tag Archives: Arrival

Review: Annihilation (2018)

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Sam S-P

Fear not, viewers outside North America, despite reaching us through Netflix ANNIHILATION is not another straight-to-streaming stinker. In fact, Alex Garland’s second film as director is a thought-provoking, odd and uniquely beautiful beast. A military-science expedition into a quarantined area … Continue reading →

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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2016, Part 1

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Sam S-P

2016 has been a terrible year in the multiplexes, not to mention a particularly black one for art and entertainment in general. Blockbusters have rarely been so lacklustre or downright awful. Mercifully the indie film scene has had a far … Continue reading →

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Review: Arrival (2016)

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Sam S-P

ARRIVAL is nothing like the way it was marketed (though you can’t blame the marketing guys for trying to get people through the door by making it out to be a disaster movie). Denis Villeneuve’s latest is a razor-sharp conceptual … Continue reading →

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