reviews
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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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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 You may notice that I have watched much, much fewer films this week than I ordinarily would. No, I have not come to my senses and found better uses for my time – a ridiculous thought. I was busy with a different but related way of wasting my time – making a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Blackhat Michael Mann’s Blackhat is probably best remembered as ‘that movie where Thor is a computer hacker’, and is one of the biggest flops of the 2010s, losing about 90 million dollars at the box office and kneecapping Hemsworth’s non-Marvel career. It also put Mann in the so-called ‘Director Jail’…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Police Story Sometimes the most difficult films to discuss are the most self-evidently brilliant. What can I say about the film that isn’t obvious just from looking at it? Directed by and starring Jackie Chan, Police Story is far from your average cop procedural. From the very first scenes it…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Eagle and The Adventures of Prince Achmed Now The Man doesn’t want you to know this, but there are actually hundreds of movies just sitting on Youtube that you can watch for free whenever you want – welcome to the world of silent cinema. I won’t pretend watching silent…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – A Matter of Life and Death You may have noticed that I already reviewed this one – it’s such an exceptional film that it needed it’s own space. If you haven’t already you can read that review here. Tuesday – Black Narcissus Another film from director duo Michael Powell and…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – His Name Was King and Joe Kidd It’s easy to be romantic about a genre when all you’ve seen of it is the best examples. Is it strictly necessary to dig into the cast-off excrement of the medium? Once in a blue moon, maybe. Even a turd can contain something…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As the 1960s drew to a close and the writing was seemingly on the wall for the Hollywood Western, there was a sense that any Western released was a farewell tour. While some directors chose to put the genre to bed with deconstructions that…
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