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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 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 I’ve got the Oscar Fever – hope you’ve got it too! At least, I wish I could say I have the Oscar Fever this year. We were spoiled with the offerings of 2022 and 2023, where robust lists of nominees made for exciting and satisfying awards races. This may is just one…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Love Lies Bleeding Would you rather watch a sincere outcast love story, a surreal body horror or a traumatic gang thriller? With Love Lies Bleeding, you get all three at once – which isn’t necessarily a good thing. Each component is well-done and full of memorable moments, but it never…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan It’s weeks like these that I begin to question this entire format. Ah well. Monday – All That Jazz and Anger Management Feverish and sweaty, the feature-length nightmare of a dying man who cannot stop even if he wants to. Sharply edited in a way that keeps the fragmented story understandable. So…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Wedding Crashers and Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Much has been said about the death of the movie star in modern cinema – where are the names that can sell a film on their own merit, the stars who are more important than the characters they play? Much of the…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller is good clean fun with a thin but obvious layer of underlying innuendo that gives the central romance some much-needed bite that the airy-fairy political plotline inevitably lacks. The vague Cold War reveals of what’s really going on don’t matter as much as…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Almost done with college – at last. My documentary project will be available to view sometime soon, stay tuned, and for now enjoy the usual weekly reviews. Monday – Kneecap The trailer for this didn’t exactly fill me with confidence – an Irish rap group with a Republican gimmick getting a big…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan God almighty but doesn’t college take it out of you? Monday – The Royal Tenenbaums An all-time favourite of mine – Wes Anderson can do no wrong. Gene Hackman is so utterly compelling as Royal, maybe the greatest difficult dad in cinema history, a corrupt hustler who thinks it’s appropriate to shoot…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks on my end with work, college projects and other general life obligations – I’ll still have time to watch plenty of movies, mind you, just less time to talk about them. This week’s reviews are all a little shorter than I’d normally write…
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