Archive for Release Year: 2017
17 posts from 04 September 2018 to 04 April 2017.
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The first part of this made me think this featured a truly alien alien! I started thinking about Solyaris and everything.
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I though this was supposed to be an adaptation. Turns out to be a bog standard modern sci-fi blockbuster.
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Following all Disney properties, this is a completely safe film, all the rough edges sanded out, which turns a supposedly magical story into an anodyne cultural artefact. A mere husk, dead on the inside.
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If Prometheus is like the The Phantom Menace, this is like Revenge of the Sith.
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This is a remake of Open Water 2: Adrift. It’s better than it sounds, but I haven’t seen the original.
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Here’s a 40 years old script that feels ripped from the virtual headlines.
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State of the art visual effects. Testicle-shrivelling details.
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This is a worthy spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element.
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A truly cinematic experience that eschews dialogue and characterisation for Stuka sirens and Hans Zimmer horns.
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Aronofsky does Rosemary’s Baby. Requiem for a Dream of pregnancy.
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Not so special K. A worthwhile sequel to a classic.
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A road movie set in the Age of Discoveries. The main character travels through Asia in search of wealth and prestige and ends up shunned by the royalty.
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Fancy-pants light Holmes that makes a competent film out of a great plot.
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From the director of In Bruges comes some fucking film about all the shit going down in America. A bunch of dipshits talking crap and fucking themselves up mutually.
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Hipster bullcrap. A low rent Spring Breakers.
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Taxi Driver meets Silence. The light political stuff is mild, but you can see the Paul Schrader speak through it. Travis Bickle’s youthful rage has turned into elderly depression and sadness for the heirs of his generation.
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A demo reel for Hot Jesus. A box ticking enterprise. Not even worth it to finish the