Posts Tagged ‘Basic Instinct’
Film Review – Shattered
Nothing good ever happens after midnight. At least that’s what the protagonist of the psychosexual thriller Shattered (2021) should have been thinking. You know you’re in trouble when you run into a beautiful woman at the grocery store soaked from rain asking – in too friendly a…
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Film Review – Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow (2018) seems to be as interested in Jennifer Lawrence’s body than the characters in it. Lawrence plays Dominika, an accomplished Russian ballerina who – after a freak accident deprives her of her dancing dreams – somehow ends up as a super secret agent…
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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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Audacious Dames – Pam Grier – Jackie Brown (1997)
For all of Quentin Tarantino’s female characters, there are none that his camera insists we love and champion more than 1997’s Jackie Brown, played by Pam Grier. The film is a tightly focused homage to Grier and her career as an action heroine with all the…
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