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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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Best Animated Feature Oscar Winners Ranked
Posted in Film, Film Feature, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, Big Hero 6, Brave, Coco, Finding Nemo, Frozen, Happy Feet, Inside Out, Oscars, Rango, Ratatouille, Shrek, Soul, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spirited Away, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Up, WALL-E, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Zootopia
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Review: Searching (2018)
If I hadn’t already written my year end list, this would have shaken things up. SEARCHING is a game-changer, no question. How it was put together on a technical level, the final presentation and the revolutionary ways that information is … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Aneesh Chaganty, Drama, John Cho, Michelle La, Mystery, Searching, The Blair Witch Project, Thriller, Up
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Review: Arrival (2016)
ARRIVAL is nothing like the way it was marketed (though you can’t blame the marketing guys for trying to get people through the door by making it out to be a disaster movie). Denis Villeneuve’s latest is a razor-sharp conceptual … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged A Nightmare on Elm Street, Academy Awards, Amy Adams, Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Heisserer, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jeremy Renner, Oscars, Sci-fi, The Thing, Up
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Greatest Oscar Injustices 2004-2013
The selection of the Academy Awards is an unfair, flawed system. Everyone knows that. Not long to go now before this year’s awards, so here’s my pick of the biggest mistakes the Academy made over the last decade, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Feature
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, American Hustle, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Black Swan, Brave, City of God, Colin Firth, Coraline, Drive, Fernando Meirelles, Film, Forest Whitaker, Gary Oldman, Gravity, Half Nelson, Heath Ledger, Inception, Infernal Affairs, Jean Dujardin, Laika, Little Miss Sunshine, Martin Scorsese, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Movies, Once, Oscars, Paranorman, Pixar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Ryan Gosling, Steven Spielberg, The Artist, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fighter, The Hunt, The King's Speech, The Last King of Scotland, The Return of the King, The Social Network, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson, Up, War Horse
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