Posts Tagged ‘Rafe Spall’
Film Review – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Each sequel of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) – including the spin-offs Jurassic World (2015) and now Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) – have failed to answer the same lingering question: Why on Earth would anyone want to go back to a place where man-eating…
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Film Review – A Brilliant Young Mind
A Brilliant Young Mind is an overly sentimental film that wants us to feel for its characters but uses shortcuts and time jumps instead of interactions to give them any kind of connection. To begin with we have a pretty traditional narrative starting point with Nathan (Asa Butterfield), a kid genius…
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Interview – Edgar Wright / Simon Pegg / Nick Frost – The World’s End
Spencer interviews director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg & Nick Frost from the action comedy The World’s End. This segment is also available on YouTube.
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Film Review – Life of Pi
When it comes to Ang Lee, I tend to zig when most people zag. I’m in the minority that was not enchanted by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also in the minority who enjoyed Hulk. Probably the only instance where I have found myself aligned…
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What We’re Watching – SIFF 2012 Edition
The Mexican Suitcase: In the late 1930s, photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David “Chim” Seymour traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Three boxes—known as the “Mexican Suitcase”—of their work went missing, only to resurface seventy years later in Mexico. The…
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Film Review – Anonymous
When the tagline of your film is “Was Shakespeare a fraud?,” you’re immediately courting controversy. Then, when your film proposes the idea that someone besides Shakespeare really wrote all his plays, and the man himself was simply an opportunistic actor who took advantage of a…
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