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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Furiosa and Hud I already reviewed Furiosa – go read that! I also watched another movie on Monday, Hud. Starring Paul Newman as the title character, this is another masterful ‘post-western’ of the 1960s, an examination of how the world just isn’t any place for that old cowboy romanticism anymore.…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Toni Erdmann There’s a wonderful specificity in the humour of this film. Despite covering an absurd breadth of settings and scenarios in it’s near-three hour runtime, it’s all firmly centred on the clashing personalities of the two leads. Ines is obsessed with control, raging against a lack of it in…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Days of Heaven For any readers living in Cork city, where do you think of when I say the word cinema? Do you stick to the Gate (or the Arc as it goes by now), or do you trek out to Mahon Point for the Omniplex? Or are you aware…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan The Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, have not made a film together since 2018, when they released the western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Since then, for reasons unknown, they have worked on solo ventures, and to date have written and directed a single film each. Joel’s effort came in in…
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