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Small Things Like These 2024
A precious work of remarkable subtlety. The associations between objects, gestures and memories achieves a Proustian depth of emotion that Cillian (brilliant as ever) conveys with a growing weightiness in his gaze and hunched shoulders. Watching it I was struck by the same feeling (the exhilaration of being in such assured directorial hands) that I had while watching Ramsay’s Ratcatcher and McQueen’s Hunger for the first time. (Turns out screenwriter Enda Walsh also co-scripted the latter and has penned Ramsay’s upcoming film so my instincts were bang on).
An extraordinary film that stands out as one of the year’s best.
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Timestalker 2024
Took a scene or two to get in step with the groove but once I did I was all the way on board. There’s some thematic cross-over with Prevenge and Sightseers (obsession, self-delusion, impossible love) but the visual style and structure here is far more audacious. Lowe’s fascination with taking seemingly empathetic victims then testing and straining the audience’s sympathies as her protagonists spiral out of control is also more pronounced, pushing the implications further than her earlier work.
That Lowe opts…
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Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute 2022
“I think it’s sad the motherfucker had to die to get Jim Carrey back on stage” - Chris Rock
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Kiss Me Kate 1953
I’d have watched this years ago if only someone had told me I’d see James Whitmore sing, “Kick her right in the Coriolanus”. Now THAT’S entertainment!
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