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Current Favourites: Contemporary Horror
We need more films like Black Bag. Lean, competent, engaging pieces of cinema that might not be the most dynamic or challenging of films but which tell a truly gripping story and entertains for its compact runtime. It’s a shame then that it doesn’t seem to be doing super well at the box office, a sign that audiences don’t really want to make the trip to the multiplex for something that’s certainly a great experience but won’t change the cinematic…
In hindsight, Nolan’s Dark Knight was always a little too squeaky clean. Now, at a time when we question the motives of everyone in power, everyone with wealth, Matt Reeves’ The Batman holds its Bruce Wayne to account. Should he really be sympathised with as a tragic paragon of vengeance when the death of his parents afforded him unfathomable wealth? Wealth he uses to punch people that, more often than not, turn to crime out of necessity?
It’s a question…
Between this and Soul, Pixar really are in a renaissance period. While Luca is certainly a lot more subdued concept wise than a lot of the studio’s most beloved work, I think the stripped down nature of this allows for the characters at the centre of it to shine all the more. Luca is not the best of what the studio has to offer, feeling a little generic in its opening, but it’s certainly one which will go down as being pretty high up there given that once it finds its emotional core, it oozes charisma and catharsis.