What is Mickey 17 actually about?
This film affirms a niggling feeling I had when I watched Parasite - a film I liked well enough at the time but less so on rewatching.
The problem with both these films is that they start with an intriguing and simple premise only to get sidetracked again and again by sidequests: introducing plotlines only to abandon them just as quickly.
The idea of clone vs clone isn't new, but it's is a premise…
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Grand Theft Hamlet 2024
This isn't a film about video games. It's not even really a film about Shakespeare. But it is a film about lockdown and what it put people through and how they handled it. In that respect it is touching, funny, sad, and eerily relatable.
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The Gallows Pole: This Valley Will Rise 2023
I don't know what to think about Gallows Pole so far. I absolutely adore the novel by Benjamin Myers, and always hoped there'd be an adaptation of some sort.
First choices to direct would have been Robert Eggers, Rose Glass or, in a very perfect and pristine universe, Ben Wheatley + Amy Jump.
There's a lot to love about Shane Meadows' prequel adaptation, and a few decisions I'm just not sure about that take me out of it.
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Petite Maman 2021
I don't often get emotional watching films but I had serious difficulty holding it together through about 85% of this
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