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Sam Sewell-Peterson
Writer and film fanatic fond of black comedies, sci-fi, animation and films about dysfunctional families.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Action, Comedy, Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ke Huy Qwan, Michelle Yeoh, Sci-fi
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Review in Brief: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Well this is about as good as a really meta belated follow-up to THE MATRIX was ever going to be, which given Lana Wachowski’s return to direct the project means, pretty damn good. Decades after the events of the Matrix … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
The TALES OF ARCADIA have been told. Over five years the intertwined animated series TROLLHUNTERS, 3BELOW and WIZARDS built to this finale, deciding the fate not only of the colourful residents of Arcadia Oaks, California, but the world. We’ve time-travelled, … Continue reading
‘Planet of the Apes’ at 20 – Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Wahlberg, Planet of the Apes, Sci-fi, Tim Burton
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Review in Brief: The Tomorrow War (2021)
THE TOMORROW WAR has a decent concept (people from the present are conscripted to fight alien invaders in the future) but spoils it by somehow over-explaining things as they happen and not explaining which rules of time travel they are … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Amazon, Chris Pratt, JK Simmons, Sam Richardson, Sci-fi, The Tomorrow War
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Prone to Bouts of Mania, Narcissism and Power Failure: Watching High-Rise and Snowpiercer in 2021
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Ben Wheatley, Bong Joon-ho, High-Rise, Satire, Sci-fi, Snowpiercer
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Review in Brief: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Certainly less lean and no-nonsense than the first instalment and too reliant on stupid horror movie characters acting like stupid horror movie characters, A QUIET PLACE PART II is still a mostly solid follow-up. After a pretty breathtaking opening flashback … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged A Quiet Place Part II, Horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Sci-fi
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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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