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I Like Movies (2022) Review
I Like Movies (2022)Director: Chandler LevackScreenwriter: Chandler LevackStarring: Isaiah Lehtinen, Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges, Percy Hynes White For those of us longing for the days of wandering the aisles of video stores, admiring the artwork on the boxes and talking movies with the staff, finally the picture for us has come in Chandler Levack’s I Like…
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War Pony (2023) Review
War Pony (2022)Directors: Riley Keough, Gina GammellScreenwriters: Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, Franklin Sioux Bob, Bill ReddyStarring: Jojo Bapteise Whiting, Ladainian Crazy Thunder Set on and around the Pine Ridge Native American reservation in South Dakota, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s 2022 Cannes entry War Pony follows two young Native American men from the Oglala Lakota…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) Review
Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)Director: Jamie PayneScreenwriters: Neil CrossStarring: Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Cynthia Erivo, Dermot Crawley, Thomas Coombs, Hattie Morahan Four years after series 5 of the hit BBC crime drama ‘Luther’, BBC Films and Netflix have teamed up to bring Idris Elba’s ruthless police detective to feature length frenzy. Luther: The Fallen Sun…
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Polite Society (2023) GFF Review
Polite Society (2023) Director: Nida ManzoorScreenwriter: Nida ManzoorStarring: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Nimra Bucha, Akshaye Khanna, Ella Bruccoleri, Seraphina Beh, Shona Babayemi Presenting the premieres of Pearl, I Like Movies and two new documentaries from Mark Cousins, the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival was a huge a hit. Its closing film, Polite Society, ensured it went out…
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An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (2022) Short Film Review
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (2022)Director: Lachlan PendragonScreenwriter: Lachlan PendragonStarring: Lachlan Pendragon, John Cavanagh, Michael Richard, Jamie Trotter What a breath of fresh air this 11-minute short film is. What a joyful expression of artistry. An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think…
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Scream VI (2023) Review
Scream VI (2023)Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler GillettScreenwriters: James Vanderbilt, Guy BusickStarring: Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere, Roger L. Jackson Coming just over a year after the previous instalment in the Scream franchise, and the first without Neve Campbell (who refused to return over a perceived lack of…
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Living (2022) Review
Living (2022)Director: Oliver HermanusScreenwriters: Kazuo IshiguroStarring: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke Touching one of the most revered films by one of the most revered directors to ever call ‘Action’ on a film set is always a tricky business. And when it’s Akira Kurosawa you’re remaking – specifically his 1952 film Ikiru…
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My Year of Dicks (2022) Short Film Review
My Year of Dicks (2022)Director: Sara GunnarsdóttirScreenwriter: Pamela RibonStarring: Brie Tilton, Jackson Kelly, Klarissa Hernandez, Chris Elsebroek, Sterling Temple Howard, Mical Trejo, Sean Stack, Chris Kelman, Laura House, Pamela Ribon My Year of Dicks is probably the 95th Academy Awards’ best film title. And it’s a film that presents exactly what it promises: a year…
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The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022) Short Film Review
The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022)Directors: Diane Alvergue, Debra McClutchy Have you ever heard of the Martha Mitchell Effect? You probably should have. It’s the term used when a person’s reality is professionally labelled as delusional and later revealed to be true. Martha Mitchell was the wife of John N. Mitchell, the United States Attorney General…
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The Quiet Girl (2022) Review
This may be a small-scaled and simple story, but that’s misleading in regards to the film’s humanist, spiritual power and its emotional intelligence. Not everyone is cut out to be a good mother or father: some are born to it but have their chance at being a parent cruelly snatched away, and some adults cause…