Tag: film review
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Yakuza Graveyard – Film Review Fridays
There’s something about the Noir genre that always entices. Perhaps it’s the romanticisation of cold, silent gentlemen who aren’t afraid to play dirty (who, in any other situation would be treated as thugs or creeps). Perhaps it’s the more pessimistic look, displaying the world around us as one of sin and parasitic pleasure. Or maybe…
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Contact – Film Review Fridays
Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us… seems like an awful waste of space. Right?” Science fiction has always been the greatest medium for…
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Drawing Flies – Film Review Friday
As I was working through the entirety of Kevin Smith’s View Askew series last month, I stumbled across a film I hadn’t noticed the other three or so times I did that in the last year. It was black-and-white, grainy, obviously very low budget and, in fact, one of the best films I saw that…
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The Film Diaries: The Final 9 – Film Review Fridays
About a week ago, Daniel propositioned Film Review Fridays with its most ambitious publication yet: a final 9 mini-reviews to cap off the year. 3 reviews from each of the 3 film reviewers on movies that have meant so much to them this year, a way to end with a bang! A pow! A massive…
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Ratatouille – Film Review Fridays
I have never been one for animated films. I know for some people, they’re the only kind of films; studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks continue to be popular among children and adults alike. Maybe for some of these people, they represent nostalgia, the innocence of childhood; for others they’re exemplary for the art in their…
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Heretic – Film Review Fridays
For as long as humans have been around, there has been religion. A way to explain the origins of the universe, a way to explain what happens to us when we die, a way to explain why certain behaviours cannot be tolerated. And for as long as religion has been around, so has atheism, the…
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Boy Erased – Film Review Friday
Film Review – Boy Erased Here’s a fun little anecdote to get this started: in its original book form, Boy Erased is the only text I have ever read two times in a row. As soon as I finished it for the first time I went right back to the start to read it all…
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The Campaign – Film Review Fridays
The 2024 American Presidential election came and went and was quite an entertaining one. We’ve all had a good laugh or a good shudder in horror; maybe a bit of both. Where there’s the never-ending fight between Republicans and Democrats, there’s SNL sketches and The Onion article posts burying audiences in political satire. While…
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The Sum Of Us – Film Review Fridays
Not to speak too crudely, but I think it’s telling that the first words spoken on screen in 1994’s The Sum Of Us are “stick your frigging shoulder in his arse!” The film is, for want of a shall we say gentler phrase, a right kick in the backside. By which I mean, it’s devastating.…