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  • Dune

    ★★★

  • Nomadland

    ★★★★

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★

    This was my big post lockdown, return me to the cinema kind of film and what a visual extravaganza it was . Every frame during its nearly 3 hour long duration was astounding, the music was thrilling the actors were faultless the costumes, aircraft and sand worms were all jaw dropping,  yet despite all the sumptuousness it failed to inspire me. The mother son relationship is however intriguing. Paul (Timothy Chalamet)  Paul (!) is caught up in a fiercely Oedipal…

  • Nomadland

    Nomadland

    ★★★★

    A friend of mine said he couldn’t bear watching this film because he felt it was about the sadness of the end of the American Dream. I agree that this film visits that space, the empty, desolate , barren, place that those people who have been rejected by or have chosen to take leave from modern society end up in. The white picket fence is exchanged for a van ,a vast terrain and piecemeal, jobs  . There is much in…

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