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Olivia Cooke

Naked Singularity movie review: New York misery

Thu, Aug 19, 2021
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A very good cast makes a valiant go of it, but a hugely ambitious experimental novel has been boiled down to a tepid mishmash of genres: social-justice drama + black-comedy heist + sci-fi mind-bender.

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Sun, Jun 09, 2019
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Olivia Cooke stars in drama Katie Says Goodbye; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Fri, Apr 06, 2018
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Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds versus real monsters, Madison Wolfe versus (possibly) invented monsters, Maggie Grace versus armed robbers, and more…

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Ready Player One movie review: trivial pursuit*

Thu, Mar 29, 2018
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A nightmare of nothingness, of empty, soulless wankery, that serves only to reassure male dorks that their pop-culture obsessions make them special, and will make cute girls like them.

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Sat, Mar 10, 2018
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Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, starring Storm Reid, is the big news…

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The Limehouse Golem movie review: riffing on the Ripper

Mon, Sep 04, 2017
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Lush sensationalism and Dickensian social justice collide in 1880s London, and if there isn’t quite enough of either, it’s still a slice of satisfying gothic horror.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl movie review: sick of it

Fri, Sep 04, 2015
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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl gets sick, but she can still inspire a man to better himself, while also adding a dash of repugnant narcissism to the subgenre.

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The Quiet Ones review: possession obsession

Thu, Apr 10, 2014
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The few outright scares are curiously circumspect, but the old-fashioned Hammer Horror atmosphere is appealingly spooky.

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