Parasite (2019).
How often are the wealthy used as the villain, or more often still the deserved punchline of a demeaning joke? Joon-ho Bong is just as aware of this trope as… Continue reading "Parasite (2019)."
Author: Haydn Spurrell
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High Life (2018).
A man maintains his ship during its aimless drift through outer space as its sole occupant – apart from the crying baby he’s also trying to raise. He drops his… Continue reading "High Life (2018)."
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Ghost in the Shell (1995).
When Major Kusanagi of Section Nine, an elite police division, looks long enough at us through the screen, we realise that she doesn’t blink. It’s one of many very deliberate… Continue reading "Ghost in the Shell (1995)."
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Fourth and final season of AMC’s Preacher to premiere in August.
The end is nigh for AMC’s comic book adaptation, with Preacher coming to its conclusion with Season 4, premiering this August. Executive producer Seth Rogen took to Instagram to make… Continue reading "Fourth and final season of AMC’s Preacher to premiere in August."
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New Planet of the Apes and Alien films promised in the wake of Disney/Fox merger.
Much of the talk from the aftermath of Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox has revolved around the returning of the X-Men to Marvel, with fans understandably excited about the… Continue reading "New Planet of the Apes and Alien films promised in the wake of Disney/Fox merger."
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Us (2019).
The climactic conflict in Jordan Peele’s second directorial feature is a masterwork of editing, choreography, and sound composition. By the film’s conclusion, it tethers itself tightly to its mysterious, patient… Continue reading "Us (2019)."
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A Star is Born (2018).
Better late than never and with the 2019 Academy Awards fast approaching, there’s no better time to explore a film worthy of recognition on the biggest night of the awards… Continue reading "A Star is Born (2018)."
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Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018).
The twentieth film in a franchise over thirty years old has become an incomprehensible box office success. Dragon Ball Super: Broly might be the twentieth in a long line of… Continue reading "Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)."
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Akira (1988).
Japanese animation has had and continues to have an immense influence over western film and television, and there is a handful of works whose mark cannot be overstated. Akira celebrated… Continue reading "Akira (1988)."
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Widows (2018).
Steve McQueen’s latest picture plays like a response to the oft-criticised (and maybe sometimes not criticised enough) treatment of women in film as motives for change or trauma in the… Continue reading "Widows (2018)."