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The Social Network 2010
What’s the only thing worse than one Armie Hammer… you guessed it: two Armie Hammers. The Winklevi.
No matter how many times I’ve seen it, my ears and eyes remain unworthy of this movie. Built on an entire lexical field of asshole-ism and ambition, The Social Network strips the social out of its title with Fincher’s patented surgical precision, weaponising it’s caffeinated verbosity into a scalpel to dissect the empty heart of a very modern Prometheus with such lightning pace,…
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018
In an age of superheroes and homogenised large-scale “epics” (ones that are somehow more anaemic than the comics from which they spring), the idiomatic refrain “they don’t make them like they used to” solidifies itself as seemingly truer every day. Enter, Tom Cruise, a relic of a bygone cinematic ethos, HALO jumping out of a military aircraft at 25,000 feet in answer to a summons only he can hear, for no one more innately understands that crowd-pleasing entertainment can’t be…
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Sick 2022
Horror has always been a genre of metaphor which is why it’s sad to say we can definitely take or leave the poor COVID framework because here it’s used no more knowingly than window dressing, but thankfully economic, genuinely tense survival thrillers are their own USP nowadays. The middle act of Sick finds that groove and when it does it’s wonderful. Sleekly shot with the unrelenting forward motion of Carpenter’s Halloween, Scream
architect Williamson’s script provides the genre-savvy blueprint and Hyams supplies the sheer physicality, his background in action filmmaking lending the film am incredible sense of spatial awareness.Translated from by -
Boiling Point 2021
Yes, the one take. Yes, the suffocating atmosphere. Fuck yes, Stephen Graham. But my god does this film get the mechanics of annoying behaviour down to perfection. No matter how many times I watch it, the characters never fail to get on my every last nerve.
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Joy 2024
London Film Festival #10
This would’ve made a good watch had i been 10 years old — though it would still be more entertaining that useful — but sadly I am not. Joy plays out as simplified and disjointed as the Wikipedia page I’m sure you’d find if you googled its premise. Thus, the film is only interested in payoffs that succeed the slog of hard work, disengaged with any actual depth that would earn the sloppy coalescence of heavily…Translated from by -
Hard Truths 2024
London Film Festival #6
Since the opening screening, every director has come up on stage and given their piece on the film before it plays. On comes Mike Leigh, waking his own slow pace (because he bloody well can) and says “directors who explain their film before an audience watches it deserve to be taken out back and shot in the head”. With that he thanked us and left. Mike Leigh returns to contemporary cinema with Hard Truths and it…Translated from by
