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Review: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019)
The release of a new Quentin Tarantino film is an event. Even if it’s not his 9th. It’s really not his 9th – by my count it’s either 10th or 11th. You generally know what to expect from QT, so … Continue reading
Blade Runner & Inception: “Questions, yes?”
This piece contains spoilers for BLADE RUNNER and INCEPTION. Two of the most iconic Science Fiction films of all time, two distinctive and revolutionary directors putting their vision on screen, two of the biggest questions we as a species can … Continue reading
Review: The Revenant (2015)
I’m one of a rapidly shrinking camp that still thinks that BIRDMAN deserved to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards last year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an iconoclast out to shake things up in Hollywood by being stylistically … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Academy Awards, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman, Drama, Film, Forrest Goodluck, Hugh Glass, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movies, Oscars, The Revenant, The Wolf of Wall Street, Thriller, Tom Hardy, Western
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Review: Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB is a rewarding film about mortality, against-the-odds achievement, and a brutal critique of big business pharmaceuticals, but it becomes a really great film when it gets into analysing prejudice (for all the good it does). In the … Continue reading
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is a joyous, mostly unashamed feast of sin, and a pleasingly brazen, amusing and different Oscar-contender in comparison to all the more supposedly “fitting” contenders it’s up against this year. Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Biopic, Black Comedy, Film, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Martin Scorsese, Movies, Oscars, The Wolf of Wall Street
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