Beast (2022) movie review: he fights the lion
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?
Revenant
gendered abuse I have received
Dude thinks calling me ugly somehow negates my review of Captain Marvel.
from Facebook: “the piracy is coming from inside the studio!”
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my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)
Now updated with all the winners…
Where Are the Women? The Revenant
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.
AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced
Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…
from Facebook: how factual must based-on-fact films actually be?
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The Revenant movie review: an extreme walk in the woods
High-toned body horror that emotionally and tonally starts on one note and never deviates from it, which becomes rather exhaustingly dull.
OFCS 2015 awards winners announced
Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…
The Wave (Bølgen) movie review: disaster, Scandinavian style (LFF 2015)
The traditional Hollywood disaster flick goes to Norway, and is grim and gripping around all the time-honored ridiculous clichés crammed into it.
