Category: Film
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Stranger Than Fiction – Film Review Fridays
“‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is a surrealist dramedy starring Will Ferrell”, Mason wrote. As the keys on his laptop clicked with every letter forming longer and longer sentences, his mind wandered to scenes from the film, in particular, the emotional finale where the main character finds himself closer to death than ever. What Mason did not…
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Flash Gordon and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – Double Feature Review
Space. The far reaches of the universe. What lies beyond our galaxy? Is there anyone out there? Who sent out the alien signal in 1977? Mason Horsley is off to investigate the sudden disappearance of famed football legend Flash Gordon and crazed lunatic Hans Zarkov. Daniel Fagan has already left for America to interview Roy…
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Film Review Friday
The drugs hit me at about the halfway mark of the trip. My best mate was driving when I looked up and saw the pterodactyls gliding across the sky I made sure to keep quiet, what could happen if my friend found out? Maybe he’d drive off a cliff in sheer panic and upon impact,…
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The Darjeeling Limited – Film Review Friday
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson “I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.” If I had to choose a film from Wes Anderson’s rapidly growing filmography that has aged the finest, it would have to be 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox, a film…
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) – Film Review Friday
10:30 PM. Chicago Institute of Art. Under the cover of darkness, Daniel flies me in a helicopter over the rooftop, I strap myself to the rope and rappel down. I jog over to the skylight and examine each frame. At the very end of the room it hangs: ‘Nighthawks’. I take my glass cutter and…
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Where’s My Special Features?
In 2006, we were introduced to two new formats: Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Media was evolving, 720 pixels weren’t enough for us anymore. We wanted more realistic video, more engaging sound, we wanted to physically feel the movie. The heat as John McClane jumped from an exploding helicopter, the shrill hiss of the Xenomorph right…
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The Firm – Film Review Fridays
The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award winning Anatomy of a Fall, 2007’s Michael Clayton, and 2019’s criminally underseen Dark Waters it was in the 1990’s where legal thrillers made their mark on the…
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Requiem For A Dream – Film Review Fridays
You gaze down at your last hit. It could be a syringe, a tablet, some powder, it could be a beer or a shot of vodka. You try desperately not to grab at it, you’re in cold sweats just thinking about how calm it’ll be when you take it. It’s not about feeling good anymore,…
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Hit Man – Film Review Fridays
“If the ‘self’ is a construct, and it’s all just role play, do you think people can change?” Richard Linklater’s latest foray leads audiences to a road less travelled in the mainstream cinema of today. A road full of rough edges, diminished morality and a leading man who, had this movie been made in the…