Short Reviews
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Beautifully highlights the contradictions by which industry controls & impedes innovation for its own survival, and is also a delightful comedy about Alec Guinness’ penniless visionary fighting the system in… Read More
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Packed with violence, humour, machismo, revenge & more quirk than most Korean revenge thrillers, but the anarchic genre-bending spirit of the director’s almost indefinable previous film, Save The Green Planet,… Read More
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One of the more derivative, ridiculous offerings from Brian De Palma that sees John Lithgow playing a respected child psychologist with a split personality. While his wfie gets increasingly distressed,… Read More
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Masked psychopath Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield yet again to stalk his niece, played again by Danielle Harris. Donald Pleasence also returns as psychiatrist Dr. Loomis, but this chapter in… Read More
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An excellent example of how to do a low budget zombie movie right. Focus on character, forget about gore and FX. Great stuff. Read More
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Olivier is brilliant as the utter bastard who schemes and murders his way through his own family to seize the British throne for himself. The third of Larry’s big screen… Read More
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This is what happens when H.G. Wells is allowed to make a science fiction. Visually impressive, wildly prescient and stunning in its ambition. Read More
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I finally watched Walter Hill’s gangland classic for the first time as part of Twitch’s Full Disclosure feature. It hasn’t aged particularly well, and fails to resonate when discovered today… Read More
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Following a string of historical martial arts epics, Donnie Yen makes his return to contemporary action films with this high-octane tale of an undercover cop torn between duty and loyalty… Read More
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The only film to co-star British cinematic icons (and long-time friends) Michael Caine and Sean Connery, The Man Who Would Be King is a late-career highlight from American director John… Read More
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Denis Villeneuve’s English language debut is a tough, gritty and downright chilly thriller about a man (Hugh Jackman) who takes the law into his own hands when his daughter goes… Read More
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There’s a degree of method in the madness of Joseph Kahn’s all-in balls-out execution that’s quite commendable. Unwieldy fun. Read More
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Revisited Shino Kaneto’s brilliant psycho-sexual horror film in preparation for my appearance on the Masters of Cinema podcast. A masterpiece of Japanese horror and one of the best-looking black &… Read More
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A brutally on-point depiction of social incompetency in nerd culture & the faux intelligence of hipster irony. It’s also funny. Read More
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The feature debut from writer-director Xan Cassavetes too often lets its unnecessary Euro kitsch aspirations handicap an otherwise respectable modern day vampire romance. Read More
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