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Dune 2021
Holy moly. Villenueve’s Dune was properly epic.
Fun facts to set the scene: Dune is my dad’s favourite book / series of books, my first ever dog was called Chani (as was my favourite childhood toy because why reinvent the wheel?), and I have fond memories of Lynch’s Dune even though I know, deep down, it is an objectively not-very-good film.
Watching Villenueve’s Dune, with my dad, surrounded by home comforts, I felt like I must have felt seeing Star…
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West Side Story 2021
The context we all deserved.
I’m a big advocate of musicals but I’ve never loved WSS. My introduction to it, as for most, was the Robbins / Wise 1961 film - an altogether bland take on the Romeo and Juliet-inspired musical.
Spielberg, however, knocks it out of the park with his adaption. It’s shot in a way that nods so beautifully to Hollywood “glamour” of the 50s / 60s but while giving the story the grit and depth it’s always…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
There was a lot to love about this film but I’m not sure if I actually liked it?
It oozed my imagined (and longed for) seventies nostalgia, and it was refreshing to witness truly chaotic and fun coming-of-age narratives. But, while each “track” of Licorice Pizza had me in stitches for a time, they all played for laughs a little too long. This is a film that could have done with lopping off thirty minutes or so.
Alana Haim was…
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