Category: Film
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Netflix’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese’ Review

I guess the experience of watching this film might be just about as overwhelming as watching one of the concerts. Yet at least the audience there would have had the benefit of context to experience it within.
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Thoughts on Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ (1995)

Over the course of the running time I probably thought of a good half dozen quips that could come here. I’ve since forgotten them all.
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Netflix’s ‘I Am Mother’ Review

We’ve all watched those Boston Dynamics videos haven’t we? When the robot uprising happens Imma go quisling so fast.
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Netflix’s Black Mirror: ‘Smithereens’ Review

Smithereens is overlong, tiresome, and I’d say meandering but like its hero it reaches a destination within half an hour and just sits in place waiting for something dramatic to happen. And then it does and it’s not worth the wait at all.
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Netflix’s Black Mirror: ‘Striking Vipers’ Review

It’s easier sharing a body when the one you’re offering isn’t really yours. I’ve known this ever since I was a fourteen, pretending to be an adult woman to have cybersex on anonymous websites. Back when the internet was slow and those spaces still felt illicit folks were less picky about confirmation. I think they…
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Review

It’s unsurprising that the suicide which kicks off the first episode is the cleanest and most sanitised part of the whole affair. We are immediately plunged into a situation wherein we know, almost immediately, that just about everyone we’ll meet in the next hour will die — usually horrifically.
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Avengers: Endgame — Review

For better or worse, Marvel are never going to make a movie this big ever again.
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Love, Death & Robots: ‘Lucky 13’ Review

I’m not sure why the relationship between a space fighter pilot and her craft exudes a strong sapphic energy but it totally does. I mean, maybe because Samira Wiley (who lends her face and voice to a mocapped performance) is openly queer. Or because my twitter feed the past month has been a constant stream…
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Love, Death & Robots: ‘Fish Night’ Review

I don’t think many of these films have great titles, but Fish Night may be the most blandly descriptive of the bunch. Fitting for a idea that comprises a lovely visual concept with very little to back it up and honestly, lines as ham-fisted as ‘Dead as our sales were last week.’ ensure that the visual splendour…
