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The Blair Witch Project 1999
“Think of the joy of being in a really good film”
I had foolishly assumed that the hype surrounding The Blair Witch Project was a hangover from its trailblazing marketing campaign and equally influential found-footage stylings, both of which I am too young to have experienced. What I actually found upon finally watching the film was a tremendously fine-tuned work of genre filmmaking. For all the DIY aesthetics, this is an astounding work of cinematic construction which is a masterclass…
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Nope 2022
“Why aren’t you filming this?”
Peele’s puzzle box approach to screenwriting comes of age as the myriad formal and narrative details of his third outing align in a film that is as equally sharp and focused as his previous two efforts but with a broader target to aim at. Where Get Out and Us (both solid flicks) lend themselves to direct dissection by endless Twitter threads and YouTube essayists, Nope offers a sharp critique that takes apart various entities and…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
This might well end up being the high point of 2020s blockbuster cinema (outside of Avatar). An obscenely perfect balance of fan service and controlled storytelling brilliance which makes for a definitive example how magnificent a Hollywood script can be when done this right. Maverick delivers in every possible department but perhaps best of all is its unapologetically cinematic tone. Its emotions are broad, its narrative beats just the right amount of predictable, its laughs well placed and well earned.…
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Black Bag 2025
Black Bag, or The Sex Lives of Super Spies, is Soderbergh’s newest taut, lean and thoroughly enjoyable genre outing. American cinema’s most productive practitioner strikes again with a spy film that is more Tinker Tailor than James Bond (with a splash of The Ipcress File in the figuring of Fassbender’s character) and the film features far more dirty looks than it does clean kills.
As ever with Soderbergh it’s all about the vibe and though this is more star studded…
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American History X 1998
Leni Riefenstahl would be jealous of just how lovingly (yes, lovingly) the acts of racial violence are shot in this film. Disturbing stuff.
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Very Ralph 2019
Not a single bad word is said about the messianic Ralph Lauren throughout the entire run time of this film. It's like his friends and family have gathered round him to shower him with petals and praise and we're just meant to sit and watch it all. A proper wank-fest of a film, you'd think this man had cured cancer as opposed to simply sold some utopian dream of an America that's never existed and ended owning 5 grotesquely opulent houses.
Still, some of the clothes are smart and Joel Schumacher is serieously well-dressed. Watch it for Joel, not Ralph.
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