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Heretic 2024
Hugh Grant's performance - believe it or not - is nothing short of excellent, and Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East are en par with him. The dialogue is worthy of a theater stage. The first ten minutes alone, the opening titles, the introduction of the sisters, stand out as a short film on its own that in itself should be worth your money. The camera in relationship to the locations, the choreography, the editing - movie magic at work!
Predictably,…
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Stranger Than Fiction 2000
There are B-Movies sticking in your memory begging to be revisited after having come across them on late-night TV in one’s younger days. This is such a case. In hindsight this direct-to-video picture's aim - not be confused with the Will Farrell installment of 2006 - was to rehash WILD THINGS. Tonally, it shifts from scene to scene - in that regard not straying too far from its source of inspiration -, and some of the dialogue, especially Violet’s, borders…
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Skunk 2023
Yes, Thibaud Dooms can act. He is a discovery.
Koen Mortier, however, diligently sticks to every rule in the "social pornography" book as if the last thirty years in cinema hadn’t happened: a grainy 16 mm provides a sorely-missed LILYA 4-EVER aesthetic, short scenes evoke an everyday sadness and a script that, to the audience’s dismay, knows nothing but a monotonous downward spiral leaves no room for a even a glimpse of much-needed retardation. Hence the film sports a textbook…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024
It caused quite a stir when it was announced that Matt Reeves wouldn’t once more take the director’s seat for KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. And besides, hadn’t the reboot series come full circle with WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES?
Those fears were unwarranted. Follow-up director Wes Ball’s direction seamlessly ties his film to what came before. It is now of course the apes that rule, and the first half successfully rearranges well-known tropes from the…
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