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Death Note (2017) Review
This review was originally posted to Austentatious Darling by Darcy Rae. Death Note (2017) Director: Adam Wingard Screenwriters: Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides, Jeremy Slater Starring: Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Wigham, Willem Dafoe Truly, I don’t know where to begin assessing the car crash of Netflix’s much anticipated adaptation of the popular ‘Death…
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Cold War (2018) Review
Cold War (2018) Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Screenwriters: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki, Piotr Borkowski Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza From the very opening shots of Polish folk singers performing directly into the eye of the camera through some of the most beautifully photographed black and white footage you’ll likely see anywhere, itself…
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Commando (1985) – Snapshot Review
Commando (1985) Director: Mark L. Lester Screenwriters: Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman, Steven E. de Souza Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olsen, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Paxton Mark L. Lester’s 80’s action romp sees Arnold Schwarzenegger take up one of his most iconic roles as the khaki-clad, tree…
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) Review
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) Director: Christopher McQuarrie Screenwriter: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan The regular music plays. The most famous action star on planet Earth looks ponderously into the middle distance. An explosive opener is closely followed by…
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Set It Up (2018) Review
Set It Up (2018) Director: Claire Scanlon Screenwriter: Katie Silberman Starring: Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs If there’s one thing that audiences from the 2010s seem to have had enough of in the world of cinema, it’s rom-coms. A genre that once enticed the talents of critically and financially successful actors and…
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The Terminator (1984) Snapshot Review
The Terminator (1984) Director: James Cameron Screenwriters: William Wisher Jr, James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Rick Rossovich A film famously made as a result of high-temperature hallucinations, James Cameron created a nerve-twisting nightmare world of surrealist violence and believable bionic monstrosity, propelling Schwarzenegger further…
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Working Girl (1988) Snapshot Review
Working Girl (1988) Director: Mike Nichols Writer: Kevin Wade Starring: Melanie Griffiths, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt, Kevin Spacey, Olympia Dukakis Working Girl proves that a simple plot can be transformed with a star-studded cast, and reminds us that rom-coms can be a backdrop to an empowering female narrative. Down…
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Sicario 2: Soldado (2018) Review
Sicario 2: Soldado (2018) Director: Stefano Sollima Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan Starring: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Shea Whigham, Elijah Rodriguez Stefano Sollima’s hotly anticipated sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s tense thriller Sicario (2015) may have been penned by the same talented hand as the original, but if Sicario 1 was…
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Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) Review
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) Review Director: Steve Barron Screenwriters: Rob Sprackling, John R. Smith Starring: Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Bradley Walsh, Phillip Jackson, Phil Jupitus, Dean Lennox Kelly ‘To you football is a matter of life and Death!’ ‘Listen, it’s more important than that!’ ‘Maybe, I could review a football film or something, you…
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Overboard (1987) Snapshot Review
Overboard (1987) Director: Garry Marshall Writer: Leslie Dixon Starring: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Roddy McDowall, Mike Hagerty, Katherine Helmond A film that entirely encapsulates its title, Overboard holds a cast of the decade’s cherished regulars whose performances are sure to smack a smile on the sternest of faces – so long as they…