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Revenant

Beast (2022) movie review: he fights the lion

Thu, Sep 01, 2022
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Idris Elba fights a lion. This is what we are promised and this is what we get. The purity is sort of beautiful. But is it a failure of the movie, or a success, that it treats such nonsense earnestly?

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gendered abuse I have received

Thu, Mar 21, 2019
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Dude thinks calling me ugly somehow negates my review of Captain Marvel.

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my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)

Mon, Feb 29, 2016
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Now updated with all the winners…

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Where Are the Women? The Revenant

Thu, Feb 04, 2016
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Apart from motivating visions of the male protagonist’s dead wife and a kidnapped and raped woman for him to rescue, women are absent from this film.

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AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 12, 2016
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Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…

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The Revenant movie review: an extreme walk in the woods

Mon, Dec 28, 2015
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High-toned body horror that emotionally and tonally starts on one note and never deviates from it, which becomes rather exhaustingly dull.

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OFCS 2015 awards winners announced

Mon, Dec 14, 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

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The Wave (Bølgen) movie review: disaster, Scandinavian style (LFF 2015)

Mon, Nov 16, 2015
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The traditional Hollywood disaster flick goes to Norway, and is grim and gripping around all the time-honored ridiculous clichés crammed into it.

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