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What? is simply not the type of film one expects from a director as skilled as Roman Polanski. At best, it is for a curious few or a devoted Polanski completest (the only reason I’ve now seen it twice).
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Xavier Dolan’s new film seemed like the event so far at Cannes judging by the longest press queue since the beginning of the festival, as well as the hustlers offering hugs in exchange for a screening invitation. Unfortunately, it seems…
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Look, if you're living in a sci-fi or fantasy setting....just don't go to schools. Seriously. In prettymuch any genre environment, schools are ground zero for more kinds of dangerous, messed-up stuff than you can imagine. Want to go to…
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When the third generation Pokemon games were released, I had found myself moving away from the series. I was getting a little older and, like many teenagers, I didn't want to associate with things from childhood. I feel like a lot of fans…
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“Aquarius”, former film critic Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature film starring Brazilian screen legend Sonia Braga, had quite an eventful Cannes premiere yesterday with the film’s crew taking out printed A4 sheets with slogans against…
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Personally, I like a screen to be between me and any flesh-hungry zombies, real or otherwise. I don't need some animatronic ghoul making eyes at my kidneys, no sir. But a lot of people have more mettle than me, and for those people AMC's…
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Civil War II #0 definitely has a "prologue" feel and not much in the way of action or twists other than the president of the United States saying that he wants James Rhodes to take his spot in the future. (There is a little bit of a…
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The concept of a monarchy may have all but lost its meaning in the United States, but in the rest of the world, the top earners of some countries come from this class. Monarchies are a form of government which differs from a democracy, and…
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Oh, what a saga this has been. The internet kerfuffle over the very existence of a new, female-driven Ghostbusters movie has been one of the more loud, vocal and stupid ones in recent memory, from the near-constant background noise of…
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Last year, we got underdog “Dheepan” and “Dheepan” got the Palme D’Or. This year, the same day saw the bourgeois artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s uninspiring “Julieta”, “Aquarius” from Brazil that fetishes its glamorous, ageing bourgeois muse…
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It’s hard not to like Jeff Nichols’ latest drama “Loving”, a biopic of real-life couple Richard and Mildred Loving, who in the late 1950’s were expelled from the state of Virginia for contracting an interracial marriage in Washington DC.…
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There's n'ateing to it How do you end a series after it's defined a platform for nearly 10 years, where do you take those characters? Uncharted 4 attempts to solve these questions and does so by delivering a narrative that grounds itself on…
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Veep, Season 5, Episode 4: “Mee-Maw” Written by Alex Gregory & Peter Huyck Directed by Dale Stern Airs Sundays at 10:30pm on HBO For Selina Meyer, winning trumps all other personal concerns, whether those entail being sympathetic to a…
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“A Legion of Horribles” gives more than enough attention to Bruce’s development while also giving the return of Fish Mooney the appropriate fanfare that will continue this series going as it goes into its possibly explosive season finale…
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Olivier Assayas seems to have taken more than a purely directorial liking to Kristen Stewart which is just as well seeing that her face and body (acting is a whole different story) are probably the best thing about his ridiculous Palme D’Or…
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It's funny to believe that we're only just getting out of the first generation to have videogames as a formative part of their childhood. Those of us who spent their early years guiding Mario and Link through 8-bit adventures are only now…
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Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” is the second film at this year’s festival with poetry as its central theme, though unlike Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist extravaganza “Endless Poetry”, “Paterson” deals in the so-called poetry of the everyday…
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Three-hour or so films are all the rage this year! Andrea Arnold joined this club today with the premiere of her fourth feature and first-US set drama “American Honey”. Arnold is one of my favourite directors and I had loved “Red Road” and…
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Technically, Red Ken is an adjective reserved for London’s ex mayor and socialist extraordinaire Ken Livingstone, but nothing stops one from applying it to this most leftist of British film-makers, Ken Loach, who for some mysterious reason…
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Back in my day, we didn't have high-end adult-collector oriented toys, Harry Potter-oriented or otherwise. But these days, any geek with the disposable income to drop can have a high-end collectible of just about anything they want. A…
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