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Alien: Romulus 2024
As is my masochistic wont, I have put myself through this a second time. After all, the world's audiences and critics can't have got it so badly wrong, right?
NOPE.
Familiarity at least lessens the disappointment and there's the small nugget that I have partially figured out what makes this such an intensely irritating experience. Namely, that most crap, stupid films at least have the common decency to know they're crap and stupid. See Halloween Kills, Alien vs Predator, Resident…
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Alien: Romulus 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My expectations were hardly very high for this entry. The marketing, from the trailers to the carefully constructed interviews promising a 'return' to the good old days of Alien and Aliens (you know, just like they literally always do with these films), threatened / promised a carefully-calibrated experience that would be more entertaining than other recent entries but less interesting and cerebral.
What I wasn't quite prepared for was how dull, impatient and derivative the thing would be. The opening…
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Prey 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Eh? Have I watched the same film as everyone else? Why does everything feel so bland? Why can't that naff score pipe down for five damn seconds? Why doesn't the Predator seem to know how its own equipment works? Were they always this thick? The bit with the French trappers with the net was fun, so a bit better than the last one, I suppose.
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Parallel Mothers 2021
Veteran Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature, Parallel Mothers, is as much about his enduring fascination with motherhood as it is the capacity to heal through our connections to the past.
Full review at cine-vue.com/2022/01/film-review-parallel-mothers.html
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