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Black Bag
Whether fair or not, every spy film released will always find themselves being compared to either the likes of Bond, or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and so finding new ways to describe them becomes an ever shrinking circle of tired metaphors and over extended analogies. With this in mind, it does strike one as interesting…
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Twisters
Nominative determinism is an interestingly entertaining, if obviously silly concept: the idea that people’s jobs, their lives, are determined by the name they get a solid two decades before they typically find their way into a profession. A quick Google finds the likes of racecar driver “Scott Speed”, meat manager “Brad Slaughter”, and archaeologist “Dr…
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And We’re Back!
Well, yesterday and yesterday and yesterday have certainly crept in petty pace over the last couple of months. But! I’m back and here’s a catch up on the last few months: The Fall Guy Ryan Gosling has now arrived at a triumvirate of stellar comedic leading man performances, in a film that struggles to find…
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Abigail
Abigail Whomever decided that Alisha Weir was the perfect choice to play a child vampire was clearly having a brilliant day at work. Stepping from Matilda into this is such an expertly fun choice that at times one feels like her default persona is running rings around adults, although this time there’s a little more…
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Challengers
For most people in the UK, tennis comes down basically to Wimbledon for a fortnight in the summer. We hold out hope that Andy Murray will come storming through and make us all proud again, and then inevitably get bored after a week when it becomes apparent that that won’t be the case. Challengers sets…
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Sometimes I Think About Dying
“Those thinking about dying are worried about living” Rachel Lambert said those words (or something close to those words, paraphrasing) to those of us lucky, or maybe, given the number of empty seats in the audience on the night, committed, enough to seeing this film. It’s not one that’s going to get a massive theatrical…
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The Newsroom
What kind of day has it been? This is a question pondered over at some point by each of Aaron Sorkin’s TV projects, and as Libby Hill’s article in Vulture details, it’s one with many different answers. In The West Wing it sets up and then knocks down it’s own questions rather efficiently in forty…
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Civil War
The last few years has seen a resurgence in films telling the story of journalists, from Spotlight to The Post to Frost/Nixon to She Said. Each of them have all decided to show different aspects of the craft, depicted different stories, and they have each had different areas that stood out. And whilst not all…
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The Zone of Interest
It’s interesting coming to a film months after it’s initial release, when all the critical focus has shifted and moved onto releases new, and observing not just how much your view on it has been informed by hearing the by lines of reviews, the speeches at awards ceremonies, and in this one’s case, the backlash…
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