Someone typed 'James Wan remakes The Exorcist' into ChatGPT and the script for this fell out of Asmodeus's arse and landed, stinky and steaming, on an excitable film executive's desk.
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Wildcat 2023
"Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp/Or what's a heaven for?" says the technically-adept but uninspired painter Andrea Del Sarto in the poem by Robert Browning. It doesn't quite account for those who are neither visionaries or craftsmen though. Millions of us are simply dull plodders with eccentric interests who should never be afforded the opportunity to make a film based on the life and work of Flannery O'Connor. The results would be hideous. And unforgivable.
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The Holdovers 2023
Is this the first example of a Hal Ashby pastiche? The Holdovers is a precision-engineered machine designed to tickle the tear-ducts of nostalgists for US cinema of the 1970s, right down to the retro-stylised production company logo which appears before the initial credits roll, all decorative grain and audio-crackle. A Christmas Gift For You, (the cinephile slipping into dotage), from Alexander Payne . A sort of Grindhouse (2007) for people who get dewey-eyed during their annual re-watch of Harold and…
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