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Turning Red (2022) Review
Turning Red (2022) Director: Domee Shi Screenwriters: Domee Shi, Julia Cho, Sarah Streicher Starring: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Orion Lee, Wai Ching Ho, Tristan Allerick Chen, Lori Tan Chinn, James Hong Turning Red, the feature directorial debut of Domee Shi (Oscar-winner for the animation short Bao) is one of…
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Belfast (2022) Review
Belfast (2022) Director: Kenneth Branagh Screenwriter: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds There is a scene in Kenneth Branagh’s festival favourite Belfast in which a child is caught in the middle of a road as a gang of aggressive men bombard his street with weaponry and…
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CODA (2021) Review
CODA (2021) Director: Sian Heder Screenwriter: Sian Heder Starring: Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo CODA, the latest film from writer-director Sian Heder (previously best known for ‘Orange is the New Black’ and Tallulah) is an English/American Sign Language remake of French comedy-drama La Famille Bélier. Heder’s film does…
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The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) Review
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) Directors: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe Screenwriters: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe Starring: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Eric André, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi Between Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs the Machines, Sony Pictures Animation are in a…
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Flee (2022) Review
Flee (2022) Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen There’s a war raging in Eastern Europe. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded neighbouring Ukraine to the disdain of the west. The conflict has thus far displaced millions of people and taken the lives of thousands. It’s shocking and horrendous. Most of all, it’s tragic. The conflict in Ukraine right…
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The Batman (2022) Review
The Batman (2022) Director: Matt Reeves Screenwriters: Matt Reeves, Peter Craig Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis, Jayme Lawson, Alex Ferns There’s no wrong take on a Batman film – a comic book superhero who has existed for over 80 years can be endlessly…
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) Review
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) Director: David Blue Garcia Screenwriters: Chris Thomas Devlin, Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Starring: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, Jacob Latimore, Moe Dunford, Olwen Fouéré, Jessica Allain, Nell Hudson This review will be shorter than others because with this film, much like Cthulhu, there’s a fear that the more you speak…
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Parallel Mothers (2021) Review
Parallel Mothers / Madres paralelas (2021) Director: Pedro Almodóvar Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma While doing the festival circuit in 2021, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film Parallel Mothers garnered a little controversy; not for any content in the film itself but for…
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Death on the Nile (2022) Review
Death on the Nile (2022) Director: Kenneth Branagh Screenwriters: Michael Green Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Russell Brand, Sophie Okonedo, Letitia Wright, Emma Mackey, Dawn French, Armie Hammer, Jennifer Saunders, Annette Bening Sir Kenneth Branagh’s interpretation of Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian detective returns for another round of suspicion and paranoia. In this 2022…
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Uncharted (2022) Review
Uncharted (2022) Director: Ruben Fleischer Screenwriter: Rafe Lee Judkins, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway Starring: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle The ‘Uncharted’ video games have been huge since 2007, combining brisk action and a similar style of adventure as can typically be found in the likes of The Mummy, National Treasure…