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52 Pick-Up 1986
Went in expecting Roy Scheider to be picking decks of cards off the floor.
A seedy, exploitative thriller in which three villainous but also pathetic crooks try to blackmail a man, whose wife is in the running for political office. The Elmore Leonard-ness shines through in how much emphasis is placed on balancing the books and discussing money.
Love a weary Scheider performance and every scene is directed with care, but this should have upped the violence.
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Life of Pi 2012
One of the main bi-products of the 3D boom were the films that were engineered as technical tour de forces and subsequently became must-see events. After the cinema release and despite great audience and critical reception, they faded from the cultural consciousness, rarely to be talked about or revisited since. This is Avatar, this is Gravity, this is Life of Pi.
With the latter, Ang Lee took a dense religious allegory and Trojan Horsed it as a 3D adventure film. It…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Got an aching back? Watch Oppenheimer and let the seat’s vibrations sort you out!
I’m erring with a conservative 4.5 here because of recency bias, but I think this is a flawless film. Also to note is that the only imax screen with 70mm projection is 1,776km away from me. Had to make do!
Cillian Murphy, besides looking like my dad at the end, is magnetic. Normally I don’t like Oscars for biopic performances, but this isn’t your standard biopic.…
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Better Man 2024
If every musical biopic can have a brutal chimpanzee battle musical number with a dolly zoom then I will watch them.
As a story this is just like every other of its kind. Sad childhood. Parental issues. Breakthrough. Struggling with fame. Redemptive performance. But Better Man is filled with two things that set it apart: CGI and vision. Michael Gracey’s helms the musical numbers with real gusto whilst the ‘Robbie as a monkey’ (chimpanzee) is funny for all of one…
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