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Ewan McGregor

weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for

Wed, Jun 15, 2022
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Plus horrors fantastical, hellish, alien… and all too down to Earth. (First published May 14th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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hidden gems from Amazon Prime, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and Hulu

Sat, Apr 03, 2021
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Passion, creativity, and suspense in stillness… [A teaser of an essay for Patreon patrons and Substack subscribers only.]

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Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn movie review: fantabulous

Thu, Feb 06, 2020
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Behold ladyrage given full candy-colored, sparkle-sprinkled voice in an ironically comical spectacle: Haha, isn’t this delightfully absurd? Or is it? This is kidding-not-kidding on celluloid.

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Doctor Sleep movie review: a reckoning with the ghosts of the past

Wed, Nov 06, 2019
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A wonderfully unexpected sort of horror movie, beautiful and delicate, but unsettling, too, with an authentic plausibility to the dichotomy between the invented uncanny and the human response to it.

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T2 Trainspotting movie review: GenX running out of steam but chugging on

Wed, Mar 22, 2017
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The sparse, cold satisfaction that could be wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence has been replaced by an exhausted cynicism. Which is exactly right.

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Beauty and the Beast (2017) movie review: ever just the same, never a surprise

Tue, Mar 14, 2017
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Like a theme-park mounting of the 1991 cartoon, or the blandified pop version of an enchanting signature character tune. A watered-down pastiche of itself.

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Our Kind of Traitor movie review: ordinary everyday spies

Thu, Jun 30, 2016
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Smartly elegant; the fantastic cast makes it worth your time. But it does feel as if it belongs on the small screen spread across six or eight hours.

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Jane Got a Gun movie review: a woman’s view on the Old West

Fri, Apr 22, 2016
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A gritty woman’s perspective on tropes of the western genre, a lean action drama that is sparse yet sympathetic, and laconic but simmers with deep emotion.

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Miles Ahead movie review: where the music takes you

Fri, Apr 22, 2016
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A fantasy about Miles Davis’s life and music; loose, free-flowing, a kind of cinematic jazz. An astonishingly assured directorial debut from Don Cheadle.

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Son of a Gun movie review: wholesale cinematic heist

Thu, Jan 29, 2015
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Misogynistic, predictable, crammed with tonal shifts, and devoid of likable characters. Another young filmmaker has taken all the wrong cues from Hollywood.

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