Posts Tagged ‘Naomie Harris’
Film Review – Swan Song
Swan Song (2021) – not to be confused with the Udo Kier-starring vehicle that came out earlier this year – is a methodical and moving sci-fi drama. Writer/director Benjamin Cleary makes his feature-length debut in this examination of love, loss, and identity. The best sci-fi…
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Film Review – Black and Blue (Second Take)
It used to be an insult to accuse a movie of being like a TV show. In earlier eras film was supposed to be elevated so high above television that saying something on the big screen felt like it was derivative enough to be only…
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Film Review – Black and Blue
Black and Blue comes at a prolonged contentious time between African Americans and the police, especially in my area of Dallas-Fort Worth. With an unprovoked, deadly police shooting in Fort Worth earlier this month, it is probably not the best time for a fictional film like…
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Film Review – Rampage
Rampage (2018) is the kind of movie phrases like “mindless entertainment” were invented to describe. It serves no other purpose than to provide audiences with escapism for two hours. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Some of the best movies ever made were created to…
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Film Review – Moonlight
Moonlight (2016) does the thing that many great pictures do: it places us right into the mindset of a character and lets us see the world through their eyes. I’m not a black man, I didn’t grow up in the rough areas of Miami, and…
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Film Review – Spectre
Over the course of fifty-three years, the character of James Bond has created enough appeal to stretch out over what is now twenty-four movies, not including the non-official Bond flicks such as the first Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. It’s impressive simply because…
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Episode 243 – Danny Boyle
In honor of the release of Trance, Spencer and Greg discuss Danny Boyle.
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Film Review – Skyfall
In a film franchise that has lasted 23 films, you’re bound to have ups and downs. After the missteps in Quantum of Solace and the production delay during MGM’s financial turmoil, at long last we can see the light at the end of the tunnel…
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