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Luca (2021) Review
Luca (2021) Director: Enrico Casarosa Screenwriters: Enrico Casarosa, Simon Stephenson, Jesse Andrews, Mike Jones Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Burman, Saverio Raimondo, Marco Barricelli, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Sohn, Sandy Martin, Sacha Baron Cohen Pixar have returned with their most summery and optimistic film in years. Luca might not be as thoughtfully…
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‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25 – Review
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Screenwriters: Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Jonathan Roberts Starring: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, Mary Wickes, David Ogden Stiers There have been numerous adaptations of Victor Hugo’s “Notre-Dame de Paris” since its…
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Cruella (2021) Review
Cruella (2021) Director: Craig Gillespie Screenwriter: Dana Fox, Tony McNamara Starring: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser Given the current Hollywood model of churning out sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots one could be forgiven for looking at 2015’s Cinderella as the first film in Disney’s current line of live-action remakes. However, upon…
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020) Review
A Quiet Place Part II (2020) Director: John Krasinski Screenwriter: John Krasinski Starring: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou In the age of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots it is more apparent than ever that sequels are a particularly tricky type of movie to get right. As if Randy Meeks and…
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Enfant Terrible (2021) Review
Enfant Terrible (2021) Director: Oskar Roehler Screenwriters: Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler Starring: Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, Felix Hellmann, Anton Rattinger, Erdal Yildiz, Markus Hering, Michael Klammer Many biopics will go for a glamorised Hollywood treatment (especially for Hollywood idols and icons) to try and make someone seem more important, more conventionally cinematic –…
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Wings (1927) Review
Wings (1927) Director: William A. Wellman Screenwriters: John Monk Saunders, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton Starring: Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, Gary Cooper Wings, for better or for worse, is an important film. It was the first ever recipient of the Best Picture Academy Award in 1929.…
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News of the World (2021) Review
News of the World (2021) Director: Paul Greengrass Screenwriters: Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies Starring: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson, Andy Kastelic, Ray McKinnon, Mare Winningham As much as watching John Wayne galloping through the dust in countless carbon-copy, rinse-and-repeat flicks that end up on TCM at 1 in the afternoon is a…
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Love and Monsters (2020) Review
Love and Monsters (2020) Director: Michael Matthews Screenwriter: Brian Duffield, Matthew Robinson Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt, Dan Ewing The post-apocalyptic young adult genre has had no shortage of entries in recent years, most ranging from dismally bland to viciously grim, so what a pleasant surprise it is to find that…
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Crip Camp (2020) Review
Crip Camp (2020) Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham Screenwriters: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham Starring: James Lebrecht, Judy Heumann, Ann Cupolo Freeman, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Lionel Je’Woodyard, Joseph O’Conor, Corbett O’Toole, Eunice Fiorito, HolLynn D’Lil, Dennis Billups In a world that is seemingly more unjust and unequal with each day that goes by, heartfelt…
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Burrow (2020) Short Film Review
Burrow (2020) Director: Madeline Sharafian Screenwriter: Madeline Sharafian It’s short, Disney-sweet and representative of our times. That’s why Pixar SparkShorts’ Burrow is an Oscar nominee for Animated Short in 2021. Madeline Sharafian’s self-penned 6 minute short film centres on the characteristic Disney formula, offering a short but hearty narrative about learning a wholesome lesson. Burrow is…