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Blue Jean 2022
Oakley's affecting debut is about sexual identity, survival, and self-acceptance in Thatcherite Britain, where the oppressive society is unfraid to invalidate (and quite frankly erase) queer identities. Rosy McEwen turns in a naturalistic performance as an anxious lesbian PE teacher who's protective of her own skin, but this comes at the expense of straining her relationships in both her professional and personal life. There's the added complexity here of her character navigating systemic homophobia, whilst also perpetuating it. While Blue…
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Babylon 2022
Chazelle harks back to a transitionary time in Hollywood with the emergence of the talkies, exploring evolving audience expectations, La La Land's seedy underbelly, and just how painfully finite fame can be. Babylon is a dazzling, bleak, and intoxicating picture. The director has a lot to say, and his story has a tendency to go off on some incredibly wild tangents; In most instances, its fun, although I certainly could've done without the snake and that spell of vomiting. You…
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The Next Three Days 2010
When required, this thriller is suspensefully paced, but the Haggis' plot contrivances in The Next Threw Days just cry out for an eye-roll and a headshake. If you find it easy to suspend disbelief, then you may be more forgiveable towards the film. However, Crowe and Banks add weight to their characters and I liked the Pittsburgh location shoot. Although tere's some plot deviation around the middle of the film that feels like it belongs to another production altogether.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963
Driven by greed, a group of desperate dimwits drop everything to race one another and dig up some buried treasure. This film genuinely lives up to its name and goes hard on the slapstick. It is boisterous, bonkers, scatty, and scrappy.
Conceptually, this has the novelty appeal of Wacky Races and Rat Race, with the latter film clearly drawing on this for inspiration. The cast run amok, running their vehicles off the road and elsewhere planes go topsy-turvy. The humour…
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The Lost Daughter 2021
Colman’s coastal escape is tainted by memories of messy motherhood and a growing obsession with others. As a thieving tourist with uncontrollable curiosity and unapologetic bluntness, it’s no wonder that she finds herself in a spot of bother.
While Colman is compelling as always, The Lost Daughter never seems to capitalise on its intriguing ideas (one of which revolves around a doll). There’s a considerable slump in the middle made up of detracting flashbacks, although the scenes are commendably performed…
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Mad God 2021
I have to give it to Phil Tippett, the VFX Artist behind the masterful stop-motion in Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Robocop. He’s a talented gentleman and his ambition is undeniable. I appreciate that he’s been given a platform to craft his own vision, but what I witnessed here in Mad God was so aesthetically repugnant.
I can’t even begin to explain to you what this film is about. It’s setting is somewhere in the darkest recesses of subterranean hell,…
