“Neither treats Chalamet as its overriding star, nor his character’s murderous diet as salacious subject matter.” As the absurdity of Timothée Chalamet’s roles in 2022 and beyond expand, so do their admirers. So far, his performances have become assumed firm favourites for 20 somethings in coming-of-age dramas, from paranoid bass player prone to monologuing in…
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‘The Courier’ is a tense, well-orchestrated spy movie. As a veil of secrecy and anticipation, heightened by mutual threats from both USSR and United States, bears over humanity at the dawn of the Cold War, Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 to spy on the opposing force. Greville had this far worked as…
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A few familiar faces are included in the Oscar Nominations— such as Anthony Hopkins, Viola Davis, Glenn Close, and Frances McDormand— but the fresh blood is overwhelming.
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In a year with such classic movies as Mission: Impossible, The Nutty Professor and Fargo, some films were inevitably bound to be overlooked and underappreciated.
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Hannibal is 20 years old. It was the long awaited sequel to one of history’s most lauded films, so where does it stand in the film canon now?
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Writer/director Phillip Doherty makes his feature debut with Redemption of a Rogue, a story about a long-absent son returning to his hometown hoping to make amends.
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The feeling of manufactured nostalgia is one most often associated with coming of age films, a subgenre built on recreating those unique feelings associated with growing up and coming to terms with your place in the world.
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The film, inspired by the Archie comics series, combines fast-paced action, head-bobbing original songs, and over-the-top product placement to highlight the capitalist motivations at the heart of the music industry. Josie and the Pussycats is biting social commentary dressed like a classic 2000s teen comedy.
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Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence: The Power of “Mecha” Love is a personal essay discussing my own nostalgic attachment to Spielberg’s A.I. (2001), my observations on the film’s portrayal of “mecha” love, and my thoughts on the film’s criticisms. When I was a tween, I often found my mother watching obscure and dark films late at…
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In the past few years, Disney’s output has been equal parts plentiful and predictable. Since the release and subsequent success of their 2014 reimagining of Sleeping Beauty in the form of Maleficent, each year has seen a new live-action (or, in a few cases, hyper-realistic CGI) remake of one of the company’s many classic animated…
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