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A Complete Unknown 2024
I knew that I had to go to A Complete Unknown — the biopic of Bob Dylan’s early years, so loosely based on a book about Dylan “going electric” that the author of that book is like Homer Simpson, Smiling Politely — hopefully he got a nice holiday out of it at the least, and a reprint. I had to go because people would ask me what I thought. I am a colossal Dylan Bore. But something of an anomaly perhaps, because my least favourite…
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Grizzly Man 2005
Timothy Treadwell is one of the great flawed characters of cinema. But he is (or rather was) – and this is the best part – real; he was no creation – Treadwell was a real human and he filmed himself on a strange quest to become something other than a real human – extra-real, unreal, surreal – whatever his ambition might have been we may never truly know. But from the hours of footage that survive, Werner Herzog has fashioned…
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The Substance 2024
I will trace around some of what the trailer offers — in my words. Demi Moore (career-best) is Elizabeth Sparkle. She’s the ‘Jane Fonda’ of this film, a movie star with the TV fitness show that everyone watches. But as soon as she turns 50 she’s chopped. Dennis Quaid, sweaty and scenery-chewing, is the sadly-perfectly named “Harvey”. He is the cruel and grotesque male-gaze through which we’re forced to view Elizabeth.
A substance is available that will allow Elizabeth to…
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