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by Oscar O’Sullivan WARNING – this review will get into some major spoilers for Gladiator II. I normally prefer not to do this with newly-released films, but a lot of what I want to dig into would be impossible to discuss without getting into the final act. Personally speaking, I don’t think the film offers…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Film Festival hype can be a double-edged sword for a new film. On the one hand, rave reviews from the world’s top critics are going to come in handy for the eventual marketing campaign, as well as getting a head start on word-of-mouth. On the other hand, the film may be set…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Damned Now it can feel a little mean to make fun of someone’s first feature film, especially when it’s only playing in festivals and probably won’t be seen by any of the people who are reading this. Nevertheless. Tuesday – Withnail & I A classic ‘odd couple’ comedy with…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Look, you can make a movie where nothing happens – as long as there’s a good reason for nothing happening. The Damned is simply not the kind of film where nothing should be happening. Picture this – an Icelandic fishing outpost, utterly isolated in the dead of winter, ignores a foreign ship…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – I Did Not Watch A Movie I watched two episodes of Takeshi’s Castle and then went to the pub and had a pint with my brother and there was supposed to be a comedy show but it wasn’t on but that’s OK. Tuesday – Uh Oh, No Movie Again I…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Bring Them Down The first of two new releases I watched in the Everyman last night, and certainly the better of the two. Bring Them Down is a rural Irish revenge parable that hits some dynamic highs but stumbles over a heavy-handed and half-hearted moral message. Michael (Christopher Abbot) is a tense,…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Where do we draw the line when it comes to that rare and elusive genre of ‘Magical Realism’? Is there some defined point that should never be crossed, lest the film topple over into pure fantasy? Is the realism the more vital ingredient? How those elements are weighted surely comes down to…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Ah, the post-Oscar film. When you’ve reached the very peak of your craft, where is there left to go? Down, inevitably, though often through no fault of the actors who have starred in disappointing post-Oscar films. After all, the lengthy production cycle of a feature film often means these follow-ups were usually…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Inland Empire Plotless by its very nature, Inland Empire began life as a series of digital camera tests that Lynch enjoyed so much he decided to string them together into a feature film. Ostensibly a story about an actress whose sense of reality begins to drift as she films a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Play Misty for Me Clint Eastwood was best known for playing cowboys and cops, so of course the logical choice for his directorial debut was this, a thriller where he plays a radio DJ tormented by a superfan who won’t take no for an answer. Eastwood’s deep, even tones make…
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