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Tag Archives: 2017
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
I suppose the biggest compliment I can lay on a lot of these recent Marvel movies is that by the time the home video release comes around, I find myself giddily anticipating a rewatch. My eagerness to take Thor: Ragnarokfor … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Anthony Hopkins, cate blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Taika Waititi, Tessa Thompson, Tom Hiddleston
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Victor Crowley (2017)
Considering that this was shot in secret a good four years after Hatchet III and unveiled in grandstanding fashion upon an unsuspecting Hatchet-loving crowd, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Victor Crowley would be something of an event for the … Continue reading
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
As entertaining as it is acidic. Perfectly cast, funny and uncomfortable. A King of Comedy for the millennial age. Sure, its targets are obvious and it isn’t saying anything particularly new but it is rendered with so many appealing components … Continue reading
Landline (2017)
Edie Falco and John Turturro as Jenny Slate’s parents? The casting director of Landline is NOT fucking around. How perfect. I didn’t love Robespierre and Slate’s previous collab, Obvious Child, as much as I probably should have but this one really … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Edie Falco, Gillian Robespierre, Jenny Slate, John Turturro
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Paint It Black (2016)
At the centre of Paint It Black is a symbiotic relationship between two women; Josie, a twenty-something whose boyfriend has just committed suicide, and Meredith, the boyfriend’s mother; a hateful resentful woman who seems determined to both destroy and possess … Continue reading
The Belko Experiment (2017)
The Belko Experiment is a film totally committed to its blunt premise. Characters are there to be killed brutally, what little story there is is only there to provide the most basic of genre frameworks. It’s exactly the film it … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Greg Maclean, Gregg Henry, James Gunn, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Denis Villenueve’s vaporwave remix of Ridley Scott’s seminal and divisive sci-fi classic will no doubt end up being the best looking movie I’ve seen in 2017, or any other recent year for that matter. Stunningly realised by cinematographer extraordinaire Roger … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Ana De Armas, Denis Villeneueve, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Roger Deakins, Ryan Gosling, Sylvia Hoeth
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47 Meters Down (2017)
Honestly, this is a pretty kickass concept for a situation thriller (or a sitthrill? Remind me to stop pulling genres out of my ass). It’s as if the filmmakers saw The Shallows and were like “how about we did that … Continue reading
The Void (2017)
I don’t mean to be another incarnation of “that guy” but this really does buckle under the excessive John Carpenter vibes. Not just in the electro-pulse score but by sharing Carpenter’s penchant for the single-location-under-siege set-up that he used so … Continue reading
Colossal (2017)
You want to know how inventive this movie is? It gets to a point where a shot of Jason Sudeikis’ feet slamming on a playground equates to the deaths of thousands of people in your imagination with just a gentle … Continue reading
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