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False Memories – A Pseudo-Documentary (2022) Review
False Memories – A Pseudo-Documentary (2022) Director: Jack Caffrey Screenwriters: Jack Caffrey Starring: Jack Caffrey The power of images cannot be understated. From drawing to sculpture, from photographs to moving pictures, visual culture has been used since the dawn of humanity to externally represent the inner reality of human existence. False Memories, the self-styled “Pseudo-Documentary”…
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‘Black Narcissus’ at 75 – Review
Black Narcissus (1947) Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Screenwriters: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Sabu, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse, Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons, May Hallatt, Eddie Whaley Jr A technical masterclass in its day and a key artistic influence on filmmakers over the decades, including but not…
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Bullet Train (2022) Review
Bullet Train (2022) Review Director: David Leitch Screenwriters: Zak Olkewicz, Kôtarô Isaka Starring: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon There are many baffling things in the world, and how this film cost nearly $86million (according to IMDb), is certainly one of them. It is one of…
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Prey (2022) Review
Prey (2022) Director: Dan Trachtenberg Screenwriters: Patrick Aison, Dan Trachtenberg Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DeLiegro, Stormee Kipp, Michelle Thrush, Julian Black Antelope, Stefany Mathias, Bennett Taylor, Mike Paterson, Neldon Leis 35 years ago John McTiernan released Predator, an oiled-up, muscle-bound, gun-toting actioner about a black ops team led by Arnold Schwarzenegger on a…
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The Gray Man (2022) Review
The Gray Man (2022) Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Screenwriters: Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Starring: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, Regé-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Julia Butters, Dhanush, Alfre Woodard Have we not grown tired of this nonsense yet? It seems that in no walk of life are we…
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Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) Review
Where The Crawdads Sing (2022) Director: Olivia Newman Screenwriter: Lucy Alibar Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, David Strathairn If you want to get your story made into a movie, the formula seems to be fairly simple these days. Simply write a novel, preferably in the 300–450 page range, make it…
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Review
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Director: Taika Waititi Screenwriters: Taika Waititi, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Jamie Alexander In 2014, Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman introduced to Marvel Comics the Mighty Thor, a female wielder of Mjolnir, and secretly Dr Jane Foster gaining a…
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Elvis (2022) Review
Elvis (2022) Director: Baz Luhrmann Screenwriters: Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner Starring: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Xavier Samuel, David Wenham, Kodi Smitt-McPhee You certainly know you’re watching a Baz Luhrmann joint when, just a couple of seconds into Elvis, you’re proudly presented with the…
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‘Blade Runner’ at 40 – Review
Blade Runner (1982) Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Brion James, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Joe Turkel, William Sanderson, Joanna Cassidy A troubled production, luke-warm reception at the time of release, several different cuts, a name borrowed off a completely different novel,…
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Spiderhead (2022) Review
Spiderhead (2022) Director: Joseph Kosinski Screenwriters: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, Tess Haubrich 2022 Netflix Original film Spiderhead is by no means a bad film, but how this and Top Gun: Maverick were directed by the same person is quite difficult to believe. Tom Cruise is known as being a powerful…