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A Glass Darkly: Black Mirror, Season 3 Episode 1. Nosedive
In these reviews I’m relaxing my usual position on spoilers. It is strongly recommended you watch before reading. An evening several months ago I sat on a bridge out of town watching the sunset. A man walking down the footpath struck a conversation, he was a teacher, a birdwatcher, he seemed dissatisfied with his…
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I’m Back
Back after a hiatus I guess I never properly announced in the first place. Anyhow, now my obligation to the Bath Film Festival gas been fulfilled I can drive my attention back here. If any of you are planning on seeing some of the screenings look out for my name on the screening notes. …
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The Magnificent Seven
It’s time for this game again. This time our samurai are Sam Chisholm (Denzel Washington) tired, cynical, good-hearted; Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke) sleazy, opportunistic, often-drunk; and Joshua Faraday (Chris Pratt) Chris Pratt. They’re joined by Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier) who all seem more…
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Watiti may be the best filmmaker at the moment. Hunt for the Wilderpeople is certainly the best film. Focusing on thirteen year old orphan, juvenile delinquent, Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) who runs from the system into the New Zealand bush. Accompanied by his reluctant caretaker Hector (Sam Neill) they soon find themselves the targets…
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Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget is back! And really, she ain’t changed all that much. Well, she’s older; but she’s still pretty much the same Bridget that we know and love. Which is kinda a great thing. The easy (lazy) approach to this material would be the horror of an aging Bridget, falling out of step in an ever…
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Blair Witch
I suppose the harshest thing you could say about Blair Witch is that it’s just another horror movie. The Blair Witch Project is one of the great films. The clumsily titled Blair Witch 2 – Book of Shadows is an ambitious mess. Blair Witch is a horror movie, not great, not awful, but as an…
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Captain Fantastic
Captain Fantastic is a psychopath of a movie. It’s beautiful and slick and compelling; yet scratch at the surface there’s nothing there. It is an empty film, hollow, devoid of humanity and empathy. The fact that it will no doubt be held up as one of the year’s feel good movies sickens me. I hated…
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Things to Come
Imagine your platonic ideal of a bad French independent film. That’s Things to Come. 102 minutes of sad old people talking about philosophy and even then it’s worse than you expect. The film starts three years in the past with an almost wordless flashback, it ends one year in the future. In the interim she…
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Tickled
If the baseline for a compelling documentary is the exploration of an outlandish true story, Tickled has you covered. An investigation by New Zealand journalist David Farrier into the American fetish-sport of competitive endurance tickling. An investigation that slowly reveals a hidden world so bizarre that the frivolous matter shows itself well worthy of a…
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The Purge: Election Year
I’ve held off on writing this one for a while because I have the bad opinion. The Purge: Election Year is pretty fucking great. It’s not perfect. Of course it isn’t; it’s a Blumhouse production. But, it’s it best of the three Purge joints (not saying a lot, I know) and if you’re in the…
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