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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: Private Life (2018)
This review contains spoilers for PRIVATE LIFE. Netflix are having a pretty stellar year of original content. I mean, the bad stuff is still pretty bad, but the good stuff is really good and often takes you by surprise. I … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Black Comedy, Drama, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, Netflix, Paul Giamatti, Private Life, Tamara Jenkins
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Review in Brief: Hold the Dark (2018)
Blue, green, dark? Dark isn’t a colour Jeremy Saulnier! HOLD THE DARK is relentlessly miserable and pointlessly vague. I get that Saulnier doesn’t seem to have much faith in humanity, that he is depicting real monsters whose actions could never … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Skarsgard, Hold the Dark, Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy Saulnier, Netflix
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Review: Journeyman (2017/18)
I really don’t know how he does it. TYRANNOSAUR singled Paddy Considine out as a filmmaker to watch, one with a clear and distinct voice all his own. But apparently just writing and directing just didn’t quite satisfy his creative … Continue reading
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Tagged Drama, Jodie Whittaker, Journeyman, My Beautiful Broken Brain, Netflix, Nick Cave, Paddy Considine, Rocky, Tyrannosaur
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Review in Brief: Manhunt (2017/18)
Surprise, surprise, John Woo’s latest is very John Woo. MANHUNT’s action may take a while to really ramp up, but once it does you’ve got more people flying through the air, sliding along surfaces and rapidly expending and replacing guns … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Hanyu Zhang, John Woo, Manhunt, Martial Arts, Masaharu Fukuyama, Netflix, World Cinema
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Underwhelming Netflix Sci-fi Double Bill: We’ve been here before, but better
It’s been widely discussed that Netflix is fast-becoming a graveyard for genre films. It seems like whenever a major studio has doubts about a project in development (particularly horror or sci-fi), or one which is approaching release with too much … Continue reading
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Tagged Ant-Man, Battle Los Angeles, Extinction, Gary Oldman, Maika Monroe, Michael Peña, Mute, Netflix, Sci-fi, Skyline, Tau, The Cloverfield Paradox
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Review: Annihilation (2018)
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Garland, Aliens, Annihilation, Arrival, Ex Machina, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Netflix, Oscar Isaac, Sci-fi, Tessa Thompson
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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: Darkest Hour (2017)
DARKEST HOUR left me cold. Yes, Gary Oldman will probably win the Oscar for portraying Winston Churchill. Yes, he probably should. And yet, something about the presentation of the film around him left me feeling pretty empty and disconnected. May … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Mendelsohn, Biopic, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Gary Oldman, Historical Drama, Joe Wright, John Lithgow, Lily James, Netflix, Oscars, Ronald Pickup, The Crown, War Film
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