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by Oscar O’Sullivan Anyone who grew up in the early days of social media may remember the aura of fear and mystique that had many parents convinced the internet was a den of predators hiding behind each and every screen. We were told to never speak to online strangers, never give out our real names,…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan In the age of complete cultural penetration for superhero properties, where audiences are familiar with and eager for more of the most bizarre corners of these comic-book universes, one question seems to gnaw at the Distinguished Competition – how can we sell Superman? Nearly a hundred years on from his inception, how…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has so much going on that it feels daunting to figure out where to start, as even the beginning if the film is like a headlong dive into the deep end of a pool that’s on fire. Once we decide where to begin, we face the…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan In the opening scene of Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme, a man is killed in a manner that is both uncharacteristically brutal and completely in keeping with the director’s sensibilities – Benicio Del Toro turns and looks at the unsuspecting victim, there is a beat of confused calm, and then…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan I am a fan of Marvel. I feel like I have to make this clear whenever I touch a comic-book film because, by and large, the way I talk about Marvel movies nowadays would have you believe I am the greatest and most fervent enemy of the House of Ideas. But I…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan The first hour of Sinners is not exactly indicative of the film that everyone is raving about. The film that is taking cinemas by storm doesn’t exist until hour two, but it also could not exist without that first act. For as shocking, exciting and genre-busting the main event is, the endless…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan From the moment Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 was first announced and people learned of it’s sci-fi premise, a cloning mishap resulting in two versions of the same expendable worker co-existing, there was one question that was always on the forefront of people’s minds during the long, oft-delayed wait for the film’s…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan What, to you, is more important when it comes to a story? The actual events, or the way it is told? Some stories sound much more interesting on paper than they are in practice, for example, an adaptation that doesn’t match your imagined picture of the source material. Or the opposite can…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan How can a film so massive, so utterly bloated with money and special effects and action, feel so incredibly slight? So impermanent, insignificant, intangible? My main impression of Marvel’s latest effort to course correct was that it felt mercifully brief, coming in just under two hours and feeling even less than that.…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan I have a complicated relationship with the music biopic. On the one hand, I’m well aware of their limitations and foibles, and exceedingly wary of the deluge of low-quality rush jobs that have proliferated in recent years. Dewey Cox was very much the last word on the genre years before it truly…
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