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Atomic Blonde 2017
You can always tell what side of the wall you’re supposed to be on in Atomic Blonde based solely on the colour timing, the concrete tincture replaced with dazzling neon as the characters head west in this ultra-stylised espionage thriller set amidst the once hypothesised 'end of history' that was Berlin, 1989. The strange hyperreality in which the story takes place never feels particularly convincing, the slick visuals betraying a lack of tangibility in a world that is overly polished…
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Holy Spider 2022
The web the Holy Spider spins is not entirely of his own design, the eponymous killer exploiting a political and cultural environment whose regressive attitudes towards women affords him the opportunity to murder without consequence (or so he believes). Yet while it would be easy to dismiss the killings as merely the product of some far-off theocracy, the kind of misogyny that enables such terrible acts of violence stretches far beyond the confines of modern-day Iran with the targeting of…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
The Revelation to John. The final book in the New Testament of modern action movies; this fourth instalment in the John Wick series begins with the image of four horsemen riding out across the desert, harbingers of the doom that will subsequently befall this strange world of mercenaries and warlords which has been so exquisitely constructed over the course of the preceding instalments. It is an epic of biblical proportions that mines the most fertile recesses of film history to…
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Shin Godzilla 2016
This film seems to be under the impression I'm more concerned with the bureaucratic foibles of a government responding to a disaster than I am with gigantic monsters hitting one another. And this would not necessarily be a bad thing, perhaps an interesting take on a decades old property, if only Shin Godzilla didn't fail to inspire interest in this either. It is a dull and ugly iteration without emotion or intrigue, which fails as a human drama because it…
