movie review
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Film Review: Sometimes, Always, Never, starring Bill Nighy
Read more: Film Review: Sometimes, Always, Never, starring Bill NighyThree things come to mind while viewing Carl Hunter’s Sometimes, Always, Never. Bill Nighy is great in everything This feels like Moby Dick Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein quote “The limits of my language mean limits of my world”. Bill Nighy is great. He plays Alan, a scrabble obsessed man who is searching for his missing…
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Shazam: wizards, humour, and a great villain
Read more: Shazam: wizards, humour, and a great villainShazam is a story about Billy Batson (Asher Angel) who is given the powers of the wizard Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) and turns into ‘Captain Marvel’ (Zachary Levi). It is a fairly run of the mill superhero origin story that is elevated by a sense of awareness of how silly the movie is and by an…
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Movie Review: Milla Jovovich and David Harbour star in Hellboy
Read more: Movie Review: Milla Jovovich and David Harbour star in HellboySeeing as this is my first official review, I was excited to find out I get a free ice cream and popcorn to enjoy while I settle in for what I hope is a fun, silly move. Straight out of the gate I wasn’t sure that the movie had started. I thought I was watching…
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Movie Review: Zachary Levi stars in DC Comics Superhero Comedy, SHAZAM!
Read more: Movie Review: Zachary Levi stars in DC Comics Superhero Comedy, SHAZAM!As I sit in room #5 of the maternity ward waiting for my partners’ induction to kick-in, I’m reminded of the overriding theme in SHAZAM!… family. Admittedly, I probably shouldn’t be thinking of teenage friendly superhero movies when my partner is in labour but, you know, it’s a long process and you can tell when…
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Film Review: VERMILION starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Read more: Film Review: VERMILION starring Jennifer Ward-LealandVermilion is the intimate story of Darcy (played by Jennifer Ward-Lealand), a composer and mother, and how she, with friends and family, tackles a summer of big changes and decisions. Made with investment from the New Zealand Film Commission, the majority female cast and 85% female production team make for a refreshingly progressive project that…
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Movie Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
Read more: Movie Review: Bad Times at the El RoyaleDrew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian, World War Z) writes and directs, for the second time, to bring us ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’; a movie about bad people doing bad things in a bad place. From the very beginning, ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ lays out what it is…
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Film review: Insurgent
Read more: Film review: InsurgentThere’s a fine line in cinema between originality, homage, and just being a bit of a copy-cat. There’s an equally fine line between a welcome addition of a new film to a particular genre, and adding another film to a genre that’s already over-stayed its welcome. We had The Hunger Games. We had Ender’s Game.…