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Monthly Archives: August 2018

The Meg

By admin | August 14, 2018 - 7:42 pm |August 14, 2018 action, thriller
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Given the title of this blog, and my ongoing obsession with Jaws, I was always going to give this latest shark-fest an outing. Let me count the ways in which the two are not alike. Jaws isn’t really about the shark – it’s really about three aspects of masculinity (the… Continue reading →

Isle of Dogs

By admin | August 10, 2018 - 10:04 am |August 15, 2018 childrens, comedy
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I’ll confess, sometimes I want to shake Wes Anderson and yell “Stop being so bloody Wes Anderson!” So twee and cool and hipster and symmetrically framed and deadpan. In the hipster bar of the boutique cinema after you seen Isle of Dogs you are likely to overhear some guy called… Continue reading →

Terminal

By admin | August 7, 2018 - 6:21 pm |August 15, 2018 sci fi, thriller
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Let’s get it sorted all the things this film isn’t. It isn’t an effective neo-noir thriller, despite some well constructed shots and a love of neon. It isn’t a complex, multi-layered narrative that demands the viewer to construct the pieces. It isn’t a beautiful evocation of cityscapes. So it’s not… Continue reading →

I Kill Giants

By admin | August 3, 2018 - 8:29 pm |August 3, 2018 drama
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Every year there seems to be one film that features a child in a dysfunctional family operating at the edge of fantasy and reality. See for example, A Monster Calls and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Giants follows young Barbara, who struggling to deal with her mother’s terminal illness, has… Continue reading →

Red Sparrow

By admin | August 3, 2018 - 7:59 pm |August 3, 2018 thriller
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This film is all bags full of problematic. Perhaps more than any other recent actress Lawrence epitomises the new wave of strong women in cinema. Other are better actors (Blanchett) or more prominently feminist (Chastain), but none have the iconic role that was Katniss. I admire her willingness to take… Continue reading →

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