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Film Review – War for the Planet of the Apes
After gaining awareness, leading an uprising and starting an independent life, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his society of evolved apes have one more transgression to contend with before as the latter part of the title indicates, inheriting a planet. The third film in Twentieth Century…
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Film Review – The Beguiled
The frame, darkened around the edges, gives way to natural light towards the center. Nature and life creeps into view. Light stays in the center while darkness bleeds out, taking away almost any resemblance of an edge to framing of the shot. This becomes an…
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Film Review – Transformers: The Last Knight
With fireballs hurling through the air and explosions sending knights in hoards sailing in opposing directions, Michael Bay marks the opening of his claimed to be last outing in the Transformers franchise with as signature a flair as Bay could probably muster. The time is…
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Film Review – David Lynch: The Art Life
Over the last few decades David Lynch has firmly established himself as America’s premier surrealist filmmaker. His movies are the embodiment of visualized dreams. From his debut feature Eraserhead to his successful stint in television with Twin Peaks and on to his now self-proclaimed final…
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Film Review – The Fate of the Furious
By now we’ve seen cars do pretty much everything a car can and cannot do on screen. Progressively from street car racing to launching sideways out of a moving train, to falling with parachutes out of skies and landing on four wheels. We have even…
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Film Review – T2 Trainspotting
“What is choose life?” The question, which is asked to Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), hits him unaware and leaves him thinking for a moment. Renton, an ex-heroine addict, has returned home after twenty years away. He takes his moment and then unleashes a stream-of-conscious, quick…
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Film Review – Life
In director Daniel Espinosa’s latest movie Life, a crew of astronauts aboard the International Space Station must struggle to save their own against an invader from Mars. The scenario is by no means unique, new, or something you haven’t otherwise already seen, unless you don’t…
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Film Review – Personal Shopper
Communication is a key factor in Olivier Assayas’ new movie Personal Shopper. Concepts of not just the means of communication but the reason for, and the things communicated during, are both subtly and prominently woven throughout the structure. Spiritualism is a religion that was formed…
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