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Alien: Romulus 2024
Glad I saw this in IMAX as it definitely feels like the best way to see it, particularly with the expanded aspect ratio and made for IMAX content, but the film ultimately left me underwhelmed. It just felt like Fede Alvarez had made Don’t Breathe 3 in space. Far too much going on. Far too cluttered. Largely lacks any sense of the slow burning dread or terror you get with Alien. Very little room to breathe. Characters mostly so unlikeable…
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War-Gods of the Deep 1965
Deserves an extra star purely for Herbert the chicken 🙌
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The Epic of Everest 1924
First screened as the Archive strand Gala feature at the 2013 London Film Festival, Captain John Noel’s ‘The Epic of Everest’, the official record of Mallory and Irvine’s 1924 Everest expedition, proves an enthralling combination of breathtaking imagery, adventure, spirituality, human sacrifice and incredible technical proficiency, captured as it was on a specially adapted camera in extremely harsh conditions. Now, beautifully restored by the BFI – in collaboration with the director’s daughter Sandra Noel – John Noel’s extraordinary achievement remains…
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Violent Saturday 1955
Bring together the familiar elements of crime-drama and film-noir, and blend in a distinct dash of tense, heightened melodrama, somewhere at the centre of that unique fusion lies ‘Violent Saturday’, Richard Fleischer’s ruthless and criminally undervalued (no pun intended) heist movie, vibrantly captured in rich CinemaScope, and set against the arresting, sun-drenched backdrop of Bisbee, Arizona; a highly unique and incredibly influential work which deserves to be put out to a wider audience.
‘Three criminals arrive in the small mining…
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