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No Sudden Move (2021) Review
No Sudden Move (2021) Director: Steven Soderbergh Screenwriters: Ed Solomon Starring: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Kieran Culkin, David Harbour, Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm Steven Soderbergh and heist movies have a long and varied history. In addition to the all-star, smooth Ocean’s films, Soderbergh has also helmed the likes of Out Of Sight, The Limey…
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Dear Evan Hansen (2021) Review
Dear Evan Hansen (2021) Director: Stephen Chbosky Screenwriters: Steven Levenson Starring: Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg Dear Evan Hansen, the movie with the trailer that caused a meltdown within the global film community, is finally here. The highly anticipated (maybe not for the right reasons) adaptation of the hit Broadway musical…
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Eternals (2021) Review
Eternals (2021) Director: Chloé Zhao Screenwriters: Chloé Zhao, Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, Kaz Firpo Starring: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Barry Keoghan, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, Kumail Nanjiani 9th July 2021. The release of Black Widow. Marvel’s first feature length entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU’s) Phase Four…
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The French Dispatch (2021) Review
The French Dispatch (2021) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriters: Wes Anderson Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Benicio del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Elisabeth Moss, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton Wes Anderson’s style is by now so distinctive that it has been much parodied and imitated, and yet it remains a glorious…
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Nitram (2021) LFF Review
Nitram (2021) Director: Justin Kurzel Screenwriter: Shaun Grant Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Anthony LaPaglia, Essie Davis James Baldwin once said: ‘artists are here to disturb the peace.’ If we can say anything of Justin Kurzel as a filmmaker, it is that he lives up to Baldwin’s definition of artistry. With his previous work…
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The Last Duel (2021) Review
The Last Duel (2021) Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriters: Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Starring: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck Ridley Scott, the man behind some of the most famous films of all time – Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and of course that Hovis commercial – has solidified himself…
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Halloween Kills (2021) Review
Halloween Kills (2021) Director: David Gordon Green Screenwriters: David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Scott Teems Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Jude Courtney, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Anthony Michael Hall, Thomas Mann Halloween Kills is not, as you’d think, a sequel to 2018’s Halloween, but is actually a big-budget YouTube video entitled ‘New Michael…
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The Power of the Dog (2021) LFF Review
The Power of the Dog (2021) Director: Jane Campion Screenwriter: Jane Campion Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee What hides under the surface of men? Is masculinity, in the simplistic terms we understand it, equal to power? To answer these questions, Jane Campion takes us to a time when men roamed the…
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Spencer (2021) LFF Review
Spencer (2021) Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriter: Steven Knight Starring: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins Following his perversely intricate and dazzlingly innovative tale of America’s favourite first lady Jackie Kennedy, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín delivered Ema, a movie documenting the aftermath of a failed adoption. In both of these works, we…
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Escape the Undertaker (2021) Review
Escape the Undertaker (2021) Director: Ben Simms Starring: The Undertaker, Big E, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods WWE. World Wrestling Entertainment: a company so ingrained into the pop culture zeitgeist that upon the mere mention of professional wrestling, odds are that anyone’s immediate thought will be of Vince McMahon’s wrestling mega power. Now long past the…