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Film Review – Annihilation
The craziest and weirdest film so far of 2018 is Annihilation. The trailer gave off major Arrival vibes, but as the end credits roll, it is a film that will have the audience in major debates about what it is they just saw.
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Film Review – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is a film that came out of nowhere. I had never heard of it, let alone that it was in production until I saw some tweets from some UK accounts about it. Color me surprised when I learned Annette…
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Blu-Ray Review – Taipei Story
Founded by filmmaker Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project’s goal is to find, restore and preserve films from around the world. To date the non-profit organization has restored over 750 films from around the globe. Working in coordination with the Criterion Collection, the…
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Film Review – Early Man
Meh. It’s okay. Look, Aardman Animations has long been a high benchmark for quality stop-motion hand crafted animation. From their very earliest works like the incredibly funny Oscar winning short Creature Comforts (that’s the one with the zoo animals giving interviews to an unseen documentary…
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Film Review – Black Panther
Perhaps to acknowledge the ways in which Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther succeeds, it’s first important to recognize the context of its positionality. At this point in the lineage of Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe, we’ve seen over the course of ten years and seventeen films an…
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Film Review – Fifty Shades Freed
Who would’ve thought that a story about a control freak man and an introverted woman entering a BDSM relationship would somehow spawn a three-film franchise? The Fifty Shades series has never made much sense in any particular aspect. E.L. James’ novels were born out of…
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Film Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the final film in the trilogy, is finally here. Originally scheduled to premiere in February 2017, the delay is due to Dylan O’Brien’s on-set injury while performing a stunt. Given that Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials hit theatres over two…
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Film Review – The Final Year
A look at the Obama foreign policy group’s final year where we are given glimpses of what the stress and details of their work entails, The Final Year doesn’t truly get into the nitty-gritty ideas or let us know the subjects in detail. The top…
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