Category: Movie

There’s no labor of love quite like that of stop-motion animation, requiring a painstaking amount of time and effort to pose and photograph each individual frame. As such, these projects often take a long time to finish, but thirty years is still an extremely long time

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A pair of ex-undercover agents responsible for training Colin Farrell for Michael Mann’s Miami Vice tell a fascinating story in the making-of documentary Miami Vice: Undercover. In order to cement for Farrell the life-and-death reality of the job, as well as the

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“The best British group to come out of America!” quips one of the many believers and collaborators peppered throughout this affectionate documentary, about a pair of musical misfits that never quite made the big time. If their influence was in any doubt, Edgar Wright has

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Adapted for the screen by revered playwright Harold Pinter and featuring crisp black-and-white photography from legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, 1963’s The Servant stands among the most subversive and thrilling British films ever made. Now, to coincide with the

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With his faith-based extremism drama First Reformed, Paul Schrader gave us one of the critical corps’ consensus picks for the best film of the 2010s, a modern parable of planetary destruction and doomed efforts at salvation. No easy act to follow up, but the newly

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Expectation management is a vastly undervalued skill. Get it right and you can deliver much better results than your audience ever imagined possible – even if you knew the odds were actually in your favour to begin with. So to Jungle Cruise, a Disney adventure based on one

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The prologue to writer/director Juan Diego Escobar Alzate’s Luz: The Flower of Evil is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of scenes from a woodland property. We see piles of timber by the foundations of a new house, a hecatomb of dead cattle, a woman riding a horse,

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Tom DeSimone’s Hell Night opens with a shrill scream. It’s a good hint at horror to come, even if, in context, it immediately resolves itself into the joyful squealing of revellers at a frat party. The ambiguity of that opening sonic signifier also extends to the

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With a successful Cannes still glimmering in our rearview mirror, the Venice Film Festival is now very visible on the horizon. Venice went ahead in a slightly scaled back version in 2021, but this year, they – as with Cannes – are drawing on the mega logjam of arthouse gems

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Cinema appears to have taken on a certain mantle when it comes to educating audiences about the dehumanising aspects that come from seeking asylum in a country that is not your own. A malevolent political wave, dead set on painting any/all incoming traffic as a blight on an

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