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Jaws (1975) Snapshot Review
Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg Screenwriters: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb and Jeffrey Kramer Plot: When a great white shark terrorizes the shores of a quiet town, the local sheriff forms an unlikely team to hunt the man-eating shark down, before it hunts them. Catalyst to the…
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‘To the Bone’ (2017) Snapshot Review
To the Bone (2017) Director: Marti Noxon Starring: Lily Collins, Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor Plot: Ellen is an unruly 20-year-old anorexic girl who spent the better part of her teenage years being shepherded through various recovery programs, only to find herself several pounds lighter every time. Determined to find a solution, her dysfunctional family agrees to…
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Tomb Raider (2018) Snapshot Review
Tomb Raider (2018) Director: Roar Uthaug Screenwriters: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons. Starring: Alicia Vikander, Maisy De Freitas, Emily Carey, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Nick Frost, Jaime Winstone, Hannah John-Kamen, Antonio Aakeel, Duncan Airlie James. Plot: When the young Lara Croft finds her missing father’s research on Himiko, an…
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Snapshot Review
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Director: Jake Kasdan Screenwriters: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Rhys Darby, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Jonas Plot: Four teenagers are sucked into a virtual game of Jumanji and cannot return to the real world until they defeat the villain Van Pelt and…
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Ready Player One (2018) Snapshot Review
Ready Player One (2018) Director: Steven Spielberg Screenwriters: Ernest Cline, Zac Penn Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen Plot: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users…
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Dark River (2018) Review
Dark River (2018) Director: Clio Barnard Screenwriter: Clio Barnard Starring: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean Borrowing inspiration from an excerpt in the Ted Hughes poem of the same name that reads “any minute now a last kick, and the dark river will fold it away”, Clio Barnard’s follow up feature to her critically acclaimed…
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Walk Like A Panther (2018) Flash Review
Walk Like A Panther (2018) Director: Dan Cadan Screenwriter: Dan Cadan Starring: Stephen Graham, Dave Johns, Michael Socha, Jason Flemyng, Julian Sands, Jill Halfpenny, Robbie Gee, Stephen Tompkinson, Sue Johnston, Christopher Fairbank, Adam Fogerty, Steve Furst Dan Cadan’s long-gestated pro wrestling tribute movie Walk Like A Panther is barely the film its all-star British cast deserved, owing much…
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Lady Bird (2017/18) Review
Lady Bird (2017/18) Director: Greta Gerwig Screenwriter: Greta Gerwig Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith Saoirse Ronan stars as a fictional version of her director Greta Gerwig, Christine McPherson – she would prefer if you called her Lady Bird – who’s navigating the final year at her catholic…
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The Post (2018) Review
The Post (2018) Director: Steven Spielberg Screenwriters: Liz Hannah, Josh Singer Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford In an era of press embargoes and Fake News, legendary director Steven Spielberg has assembled one of the most Spielbergian cast of all…
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Darkest Hour (2018) Review
Darkest Hour (2018) Director: Joe Wright Screenwriter: Anthony McCarten Starring: Gary Oldman, Stephen Dillane, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup, Kristin Scott Thomas Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, the tale of Winston Churchill’s fateful two weeks between becoming prime minister and overseeing the actions of Dunkirk, is a film plighted by obvious screenwriting techniques, distracting visual choices and…