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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 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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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 Monday – Speed Racer Let it never be said that I don’t like fun. Speed Racer is a magnificent, joyous explosion of a film, a non-stop twirling headlong rush though a cartoon world of vibrant colours and bizarre characters treated with a genuine and heartfelt emotional honesty that just doesn’t seem to…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan As a kid growing up in the 2000s, watching a movie was a very different experience than it is today. Streaming was barely an idea yet, my TV options were Dora and Blues Clues, and the cinema trips were a relative rarity. DVDs were where it was at, a big silver box…
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