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Review: Isle of Dogs (2018)
ISLE OF DOGS…I…love…dogs. I only just got that. Anyway, I have a confession: I’m a cat person. I value their independence, their intelligence and their lack of need to be subservient to us. Anyway, while I don’t particularly like dogs … Continue reading
Review: Game Night (2018)
GAME NIGHT is an unexpected delight. Something that could just be raucous and crude in the hands of the guys behind the VACATION remake from a couple of years back ends up being not only a really sharp comedy but … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Their Finest (2016/17)
Yes, it’s probably destined to be a perennial Sunday afternoon favourite along with all the other cosy feelgood historical fare, but THEIR FINEST has a fair bit of bite to it as well. It has what SUFFRAGETTE (dignified as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Nighy, Comedy, Gemma Arterton, Historical Drama, Suffragette, Their Finest
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Review: Lady Bird (2017)
While we’re up to our eyeballs in father-son stories on film, even pretty frequently seeing father-daughter and mother-son stories (both examples involving sons tend to be dysfunctional, because aren’t we just the worst?), there are relatively few really good mother-daughter … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Diablo Cody, Drama, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lois Smith, Oscars, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Henderson, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts
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Review in Brief: A Futile And Stupid Gesture (2018)
Netflix really were straight out of the gate with their 2018 Originals. I hope it’s further evidence of them being enticing for risky, different projects and that we’re not just going to get a deluge of mediocrity. National Lampoon biopic … Continue reading
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Tagged A Futile And Stupid Gesture, Animal House, Biopic, Comedy, Domhnall Gleeson, Man on the Moon, National Lampoon, Netflix, Will Forte
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Review in Brief: The Big Sick (2017)
I’ve seen THE BIG SICK twice now, and both times it got me at exactly the same moments. These weren’t particularly emotionally manipulative or maudlin scenes, but the weight of emotion that had built up over the two hours of … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Drama, Holly Hunter, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, Zoe Kazan
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Review: The Death of Stalin (2017)
If there’s a darker comedy out there than THE DEATH OF STALIN, I’m not sure I want to see it. This is the blackest of black humour, a seemingly impossible situation to derive laughter from, but Armando Iannucci somehow manages … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Batman vs Two-Face (2017)
Along with the live-action movie and RETURN OF THE CAPED CRUSADERS, this makes for a nice nice little trilogy, not to mention a fitting tribute to Adam West. BATMAN VS TWO-FACE has all the sorts of gags you’ve come to … Continue reading
Review: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
JUMANJ was one of those 90s films. At the risk of being pilloried, I’m going to say it: it wasn’t great. It hasn’t aged well either, but there was definitely something about it, something that means a lot of people … Continue reading
Review in Brief: The Love Witch (2017)
I can almost guarantee somewhere down the line THE LOVE WITCH is going to be studied. It’s going to be that really weird one you watch on your film course in order to write an equally weird essay neither you … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Biller, B-movie, Comedy, Hammer Horror, Horror, Samantha Robinson, The Love Witch
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