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About Dry Grasses (2023) Review
About Dry Grasses (2023)Director: Nuri Bilge CeylanScreenwriters: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Akın AksuStarring: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici With six of his feature films selected to represent Turkey for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and having previously won the Palme d’Or for his 2014 effort Winter Sleep, the announcement of…
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The Beast (2023) Review
The Beast (2023)Director: Bertrand BonelloScreenwriter: Bertrand BonelloStarring: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay One of the most anticipated films of the 2024 Glasgow Film Festival was Bertrand Bonello’s centuries-spanning tale of romance and obsession, The Beast. Starring Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die) and festival favourite George MacKay (1917), the film had the star power to garner…
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Dead Ringers (1988) Review
Dead Ringers (1988)Director: David CronenbergScreenwriters: David Cronenberg, Norman SniderStarring: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack, Nick Nichols, Damir Andrei, Miriam Newhouse, David Hughes, Richard W. Farrell, Jonathan Haley, Nicholas Haley If anything, David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological horror Dead Ringers feels slightly underappreciated in terms of the influence it…
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Review
Lisa Frankenstein (2024)Director: Zelda WilliamsScreenwriter: Diablo CodyStarring: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino Mary Shelley spent a lot of her time in cemeteries. As writer Bess Lovejoy explained in her 2018 article for JSTOR Daily, Shelley would often take walks through the St. Pancras churchyard and visit the grave of…
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Imaginary (2024) Review
Imaginary (2024)Director: Jeff WadlowScreenwriters: Jeff Wadlow, Greg Erb, Jason OremlandStarring: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Betty Buckley, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Matthew Sato, Veronica Falcón One tries not to pass too much judgement on anything before they go in to watch a film. Jeff Wadlow, after all, came out with Netflix’s The Curse of Bridge Hollow…
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Damsel (2024) Review
Damsel (2024)Director: Juan Carlos FresnadilloScreenwriter: Dan MazeauStarring: Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright For as long as storytelling has existed, damsels have been in distress. The trope can be traced back to ancient history and has continued to evolve and endure well into the modern era,…
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The After (2023) Short Film Review
The After (2023)Director: Misan HarrimanScreenwriters: John Julius Schwabach, Misan HarrimanStarring: David Oyelowo, Jessica Plummer, Amelie Dokubo Grief and social awareness of violence are the themes underpinning 2024 Oscars Live Action Short nominee The After, the debut film from famed Nigerian-British social activist Misan Harriman. David Oyelowo, who should have been nominated for an Oscar for…
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Nyad (2023) Review
Nyad (2023)Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiScreenwriter: Julia CoxStarring: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans Nyad, one of three Netflix originals that has found its footing in the Oscars acting categories, has largely remained on the periphery of moviegoers. The two nominations it secured, Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actress, have become eclipsed, particularly…
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Dune: Part Two (2024) Review
Dune: Part Two (2024)Director: Denis VilleneuveScreenwriters: Denis Villeneuve, Jon SpaihtsStarring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem In Dune: Part Two, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), are taken in by the Fremen,…