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Se7en (1995) Review
Se7en (1995) Director: David Fincher Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker Starring: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow 25 years ago, the world was introduced to one of the most intense thriller crime dramas of all time, David Fincher’s Se7en. It was a film that had all the makings of a classic, from a powerful…
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The Devil All the Time (2020) Review
The Devil All the Time (2020) Director: Antonio Campos Screenwriters: Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Hayley Bennett, Kristin Griffith, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Mewling, Mia Wasikowska Religion-fueled thriller The Devil All the Time has managed to capture the attention of an unusually wide audience for a story set in the…
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Easy A (2010) Review
Easy A (2010) Director: Will Gluck Screenwriters: Bert V. Royal Starring: Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes Easy A, loosely based on “The Scarlet Letter” – an American literary classic which often does the rounds in popular culture as a means of discussing women’s place in society –…
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The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) Review
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) Director: McG Screenwriters: McG, Dan Lagana, Brad Morris, Jimmy Warden Starring: Judah Lewis, Emily Alyn Lind, Samara Weaving, Hana Mae Lee, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, Andrew Bachelor When it comes to Netflix original content, it can be hit or miss, with the streaming giant hoovering up so much of the…
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Memories of Murder (2003) Review
Memories of Murder (2003) Director: Bong Joon-ho Screenwriters: Bong Joon-ho, Shim Sung-bo Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byeon Hie-bong, Ko Seo-hie, Park No-shik, Park Hae-il Before Bong Joon-ho received international attention with his 2006 monster-driven family drama The Host, and long before the game-changing awards juggernaut Parasite, he gave the world…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Director: Charlie Kaufman Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman Starring: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Jason Ralph I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the latest mind-bending offering from the absurdly creative film auteur of both screenwriting and directing, Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York), loosely adapted from the novel…
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The Assistant (2019/20) Review
This review was originally published by its author Sam Sewell-Peterson on SSP Thinks Film. The Assistant (2019/20) Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Kitty Green Starring: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, John Orsini, Noah Robbins, Kristine Froseth, Mackenzie Leigh, Purva Bedi There are plenty of films about the artistic side of filmmaking, but very few about the business…
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An American Pickle (2020) Review
An American Pickle (2020) Director: Brandon Trost Screenwriter: Simon Rich Starring: Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Jorma Taccone The year is 1919, Herschel (Rogen) and Sarah Greenbaum (Snook) sit looking out over their favourite lake in Poland, dreaming of the future they might have. Sarah would like to be rich enough to have her own headstone…
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Mulan (2020) Review
Mulan (2020) Director: Niki Caro Screenwriters: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Elizabeth Martin, Lauren Hynek Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao After many months of release date-wrangling, Disney’s latest live-action remake/reimagining is finally here. Mulan sees a talented female director given a mega budget…
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) Review
The Man Who Killer Don Quixote (2018) Director: Terry Gilliam Screenwriters: Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, Stellan Skarsgård, Jordi Mollà, Jason Watkins, Hovik Keuchkerian Remember those many, many years when The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was Schrodinger’s Masterpiece? It had spent so long in development hell,…