Let’s just establish, for the purposes of this review, that William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is like… the greatest work of literature in the English language. You can agree to disagree, but for the purposes of watching Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, it is best to go in with that mentality. The film tells us at its opening that […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I find myself in a difficult position with the Avatar franchise. I enjoyed the first: the accusations of plotlessness don’t really ring that true in my opinion, and of course everyone knows it looks fucking incredible. The Way of Water, however, was decidedly NOT my thing, although seeing it on a
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you don’t know Marty Mauser, I suggest you head to the cinema and get swiftly acquainted. And if you don’t know the Safdie brothers… I would maybe suggest watching a couple of their previous films (Good Time & Uncut Gems in particular) before heading into this one. Marty Supreme,
So we have come to the end of another year of cinema. Whilst America feasts on Oscar hopefuls in November & December, the UK is left with crumbs until all the good films come out in January. In the first half of the year I was getting a little worried that this would not be
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I have a confession to make. I… am a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan. Not just a casual fan either. Being freshly 13 when the first game was released (August 8th, 2014), and getting into horror for the first time, I was the prime target to be swept up by
Anyone who knows me is surely aware that I am something of a connoisseur of camp, a lover of terrible, obscure films. And if I was going to start a film blog, there would have to be a space for these masterpieces (or monstrosities) to dwell. So this is where Weird Wednesday comes into play,
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I saw Pillion a few weeks ago as part of Odeon’s Screen Unseen program, where they show upcoming films before their official release. Usually it’s a slightly more obscure film that they think deserves to be seen – for example, in the past I have watched Joy Ride, Scrapper, even bigger films like Anatomy of
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. After the shortest gap between a film and its sequel we have seen in about a decade, Jon M. Chu is back to finish off his tragic lesbian romance… wait, what do you mean Elphaba and Glinda are both straight? That can’t be correct, surely? The entire crux of this
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Yorgos Lanthimos has carved an incredibly niche, and wonderfully distinct, place for himself in modern cinema. There’s no way you can watch one of his films without knowing intrinsically that he made it. Which is why it’s surprising that Bugonia, his fourth collaboration with Emma Stone, was never originally meant
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