Tag: Film
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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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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 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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Mothers’ Instinct
Well as American remakes of non-english language films go, this is relatively harmless. After it leaves the halls of multiplexes (and lets face it, that prospect shan’t be long now), it will find a nice comfy little home on the boring side of Netflix where it will do no harm and be forgotten about. Until…
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