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Film Review – Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic widely known to have been addled by production delays, recasts, and firings, emerges like a diamond-clad diva drunk at a party, barely held together by string and champagne, egged on by the fruits of her own legend, a show within…
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Film Review – The Nutcracker and The Four Realms
How to create a fairly generic preteen holiday fantasy: Start with a base of a cost effective public domain property, slather in copious amounts of CGI, pepper using the money you saved on originality to hire several talented actors who should know better, stir with…
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Film Review – Suspiria (2018)
When news the remake of Suspiria was actually going to happen for reals this time, much gnashing of teeth and wailing could be heard throughout the land. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration. But nobody I knew thought it was a good idea.) Firstly, everybody needs to…
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Film Review – Wildlife
Wildlife is a relationship drama helmed by first-time director Paul Dano known for his work in front of the camera. The film is also written by Paul Dano, his first screenplay, and Zoe Kazan, her second screenplay after Ruby Sparks. The film is based on the…
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Film Review – Hunter Killer
Sometimes, people just want fast food. That’s precisely the kind of film Hunter Killer (2018) is. Don’t come here looking for deep insights into human nature, folks. This is a standard, straightforward actioner that is only interested in entertaining us for two hours. And you…
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Film Review – Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s feature length debut as writer and director – Mid90s (2018) – has a great affection for the timeframe it’s set in. As the title suggests, Hill takes us back to Los Angeles in the middle of the 1990s, amongst the youth that spends…
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Film Review – Halloween (2018)
Director David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) is the best entry in the long running series featuring the masked killer known as Michael Myers. It has a great admiration for John Carpenter’s classic original, while doing just enough to stand on its own legs. The franchise…
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Film Review – Slave to the Grind
Toronto-based filmmaker Doug Robert Brown set out to make the most comprehensive film he could about the extreme heavy metal sub-genre known as grindcore. Given that grindcore, the speedy, more aggressive cousin of death metal and hardcore punk, has always been the red-headed stepchild of…
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