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Paddington in Peru 2024
It’s still enjoyable to spend time with the bear and the Browns, but this doesn’t have the magic of the previous two films.
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Dune 2021
Truly modern sound mixing at its worst: Zimmer’s score, which overpowers rather than enhances, is too loud, while most of the dialogue is too quiet. The lack of MENA actors is fucked up. And did the colour palette have to be quite so bland? And the cities of Arakis so blandly realised? Though in other respects the visual effects are impressive.
While the story is a classic tale of betrayal on an epic canvas, it is a problem that we…
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The Ear 1970
You never know when the Party might be listening.
Karel Kachyňa‘s The Ear, a tale of political paranoia and petty persecution, was unsurprisingly banned by Czechoslovakia’s communist government in 1970. Twenty years later it was deservedly nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
As the film opens, Ludvik, a deputy minister, and his wife, Anna, are returning home from a party. He tells her to get the keys. She says she cannot find them. We flash back to her dropping…
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