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Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Brick, Knives Out, Looper, Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom, The Last Jedi
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Review in Brief: The Director and the Jedi (2018)
Whatever you thought about EPISODE VIII (and whether or not you need to get over yourself), behind-the-scenes documentary THE DIRECTOR AND THE JEDI brings chills (Frank Oz taking up the Yoda puppet again) and tears (filming Carrie Fisher and Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Carrie Fisher, Documentary, Frank Oz, Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson, The Director and the Jedi, The Last Jedi
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Review: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
There was a lovely little moment in THE FORCE AWAKENS where Leia (Carrie Fisher) after reuniting with Han (Harrison Ford) comments with a wry smile, “Same jacket” and her paramour responds, with mock hurt in his voice, “No, new jacket”. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Adam Driver, Ade Edmondson, Andy Serkis, Benicio del Toro, Blockbuster, Brick, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Fantasy, Gwendoline Christie, Harrison Ford, Kelly Marie Tran, Looper, Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Sci-fi, Star Wars, Star Wars: Episode VIII, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi
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Review: The Brothers Bloom (2008)
This year, Rian Johnson was announced as the director of STAR WARS EPISODE VIII, which is a truly enticing prospect. He’s a writer-director I’ve only come into contact with over the past couple of years, first through the sharp time … Continue reading
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Tagged Breaking Bad, Brick, Comedy, Con Man Movie, Crime, Farce, Film, Looper, Maximilian Schell, Movies, Rachel Weisz, Rian Johnson, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltraine, Star Wars Episode VII
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Breaking Bad: A Very Filmic Television Experience
BREAKING BAD has now come to a glorious end, and it really was a television marvel. The show, about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher cooking crystal meth to secure his family’s future, was thematically layered, beautifully performed, perfectly paced, artfully filmed and … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature, Television
Tagged Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Crime, Drama, Film, Film noir, Movies, Rian Johnson, Steven Soderbergh, TV, Vince Gilligan, Western
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Review: Brick (2005)
BRICK is the kind of film that really shouldn’t work. The premise: a hardboiled detective film set in an American high school. It’s a unique combination of disparate ideas, and somehow everything comes together and makes for a fantastically weird and wonderful end … Continue reading
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Tagged Brick, Chinatown, Film, Film noir, Independent Film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper, Movies, Mystery, Nora Zehetner, Rian Johnson, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon
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This is not going to go the way you think…
Something happened last night (or this morning in the UK). There was a disturbance in the force and millions of voices cried out in jubilation, not to be silenced until December. The first full trailer for STAR WARS: THE LAST … Continue reading →