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Licorice Pizza (2021) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Alana Haim, Comedy, Cooper Hoffman, Drama, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson
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Review in Brief: Freshman Year/Shithouse (2020/21)
SHITHOUSE is a much better name, why’d they have to ruin our fun for the UK release? For anyone who has gone to university in the last decade or so, this ceaselessly honest portrayal of uni life – the highs … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Comedy, Coming of Age Film, Cooper Raif, Drama, Dylan Gelula, Freshman Year, Shithouse
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Review in Brief: Coda (2021)
I wasn’t going to cry during CODA, but then they deployed the Joni Mitchell. Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the teenage Child of Deaf Adults, acting as her family’s interpreter on their fishing boat and in their local community. But when … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Coda, Comedy, Daniel Durant, Drama, Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Sian Heder, Troy Kotsur
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Review in Brief: Shiva Baby (2020)
It’s going to be a hotly contested battle between SHIVA BABY and RARE BEASTS for the most uncomfortably awkward comedy released in 2021. Interestingly both are by female first-time feature directors and both show confidence in abundance and a unique … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Comedy, Danny Deferrari, Emma Seligman, Fred Melamed, Molly Gordon, Rachel Sennott, Rare Beasts, Shiva Baby
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Review in Brief: Free Guy (2021)
FREE GUY is more evidence that the better video game movies aren’t direct IP adaptations but about gaming itself. You’ll get a lot more out of it if you’re a gamer, if you know the conventions, mechanics and player behaviour … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Comedy, Free Guy, Jodie Comer, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Taika Waititi
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Review in Brief: Werewolves Within (2021)
WEREWOLVES WITHIN is an absolute treat for horror-comedy fans, and cements Josh Ruben as a new master of meta scares. Not many horrors would open with a Mr Rogers quote, but it works creepily, atonally well. Believe it or not … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Horror, Josh Ruben, Mishna Wolff, Sam Richardson, Scare Me, Werewolves Within
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Review in Brief: Another Round (2020)
Alcohol: the great social liberator and the great destroyer, or as Homer Simpson famously put it “the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems”. ANOTHER ROUND follows a group of middle-class friends and teachers in Denmark who experiment … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Round, Comedy, Drama, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscars, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
INSIDE is a feature film, no question. At the very least it’s a musical, with elements of documentary and insightful monologue mixed in. Comedy musician Bo Burnham spent over a year crafting a unique special for Netflix and decided to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bo Burnham, Comedy, Inside, Musical, Netflix
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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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