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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 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 – A View to a Kill And so Roger Moore’s long and tempestuous tenure as James Bond comes to an end with, in my opinion, the best of his seven outings, though not by too wide a margin. A View to a Kill isn’t redefining the formula by any means –…
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