The Company of Wolves (1984)Director: Neil JordanScreenwriters: Angela Carter, Neil JordanStarring: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Tusse Silberg, Micha Bergese Toward the end of Neil Jordan’s 1984 fantasy horror film The Company of Wolves, a little girl, dressed in a blood red cape, walks alone in a silent wood on the way to her […]
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The Critic (2023)Director: Anand TuckerScreenwriters: Patrick MarberStarring: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Romola Garai, Alfred Enoch Whenever a filmmaker presents an idea to a small British film company, they are restricted in what they can do to get funding. Small genre films (low budget horrors), wartime dramas, kitchen-sink mumblecore, or
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AfrAId (2024)Director: Chris WeitzScreenwriters: Chris WeitzStarring: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, Keith Carradine In late 2022, Blumhouse, a studio known for making one good and successful movie every so often which then in turn funds ten abominations, released M3GAN, a sci-fi thriller about a robotic doll that gains sentience
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The Crow (2024)Director: Rupert SandersScreenwriters: Zack Baylin, William SchneiderStarring: Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston Contrary to popular belief, lightning can, in fact, strike the same place twice. Additionally, the odds of getting struck by lightening are low – but never zero. The same could be said of reboots, remakes, and reimaginings of films. Although
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Director: Shawn LevyScreenwriters: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn LevyStarring: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, Matthew Macfadyen It’s strange that neither of the characters who represent the two biggest box office draws for the X-Men movies started out in
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)Director: Otto PremingerScreenwriter: Wendell MayesStarring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Kathryn Grant, Brooks West, Orson Bean, Murray Hamilton, Joseph N. Welch Courtroom dramas tend to get the blood pumping. There’s nothing quite like a shouted “Objection!” at the right time to turn a story on
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Sister Wives (2024)Director: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamScreenwriters: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamStarring: Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Michael Fox It starts getting worrying in contemporary life when someone playing Snake on an old Nokia is a sign of times long past, but this is the state of things. Historical fiction films can now talk about security camera surveillance and phones and
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The Notebook (2004)Director: Nick CassavetesScreenwriter: Jeremy LevenStarring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen. When The Notebook was released in the summer of 2004, critics and audiences seemed split in their response to the film. Based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name,
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall FallahScreenwriters: Chris Bremner, Will BeallStarring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Rhea Seehorn, Joe Pantoliano, Quinn Hemphill Questions must be asked in films, and with the fourth instalment of the Bad
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The Book of Clarence (2023)Director: Jeymes SamuelScreenwriter: Jeymes SamuelStarring: LaKeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Micheal Ward, Caleb McLaughlin, Alfre Woodard, James McAvoy At the height of the Hollywood golden age, one of the staples of cinema was the Biblical Epic. From The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Story Ever Told
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