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The Wild Robot 2024
I want to prefix this review by mentioning, I am a step-parent to two children. I have played my part in raising my step-son since he was 6 and my daughter since she was less than a year old.
I mention this, because it may be that this impacts my views on The Wild Robot, somewhat. At times this felt like a piece of art that spoke to me on a cellular level, cutting right in to a piece of…
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Shame 2011
Probably one of, if not my favourite 'non-franchise' film.
Shame is insular, contemplative.
Stirring, swelling and painful.
It has an unnerving, slow and thoughtful menace to it that envelopes from the first moment.
Its a magnetic, beautiful piece of art. Practically a painting where every flourish and flick has more meaning than the last.
Shame never startles or shouts, but instead immediately it cradles you and it sucks you in, entrances and ensares and the pain it gives etches its…
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Oppenheimer 2023
There is so much to be said about the modern 'blockbuster'. We are in a time of great change and so many opinions are split, even soured. The rapid rise (and now seemingly as rapid fall) of the superhero genre has left the average cinema visiter in a state of perplexion.
"All there are nowadays are remakes and sequels".
There is an infamous fallacy, that other than the aforementioned, the 'other' genre are art-house indie films and such-like that do…
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