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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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Tag Archives: Western
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: The Hateful Eight (2015)
With THE HATEFUL EIGHT Quentin Tarantino may well have invented a new sub-genre: the misdirection-Western. The mystery that is seemingly a key plot point from the second act onward is, in fact, pretty incidental. While this might disappoint some, the … Continue reading
Review: The Homesman (2014)
Tommy Lee Jones’ return to feature directing nine years after THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA doesn’t quite strike the same perfect balance of tone, characterisation and slow-burning story, but it does reaffirm Jones’ mercurial eye for detail and reemphasise … Continue reading
Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)
It’s rare thing that a film so completely divides critics in the USA from the rest of the world. Star Armie Hammer claimed that “If you go back and read the negative reviews, most of them aren’t about the content … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Armie Hammer, Chinatown, Comedy, Disney, Film, Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Little Big Man, Movies, New Hollywood, Planet Terror, The Lone Ranger, Western, William Tell Overture
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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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