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The Exorcist (1973): 50th anniversary Director’s Cut
By way of what I suppose is full disclosure, The Exorcist happens to be my favourite film. I’ve seen it on the big screen twice now, the first time two or three years ago and latterly for its 50th anniversary. It remains an utterly compelling motion picture, about faith and guilt and love, told through…
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Saw X (2023)
“You people are f***ing sick…” You’re telling me. How did the Saw franchise end up spawning 10 films? Why, of all the films to come out of the dark days of “torture porn” in the early ‘00s, did this premise have such longevity? Well, a few reasons. The most important probably being Tobin Bell as…
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The Creator (2023)
I just saw an early screening of The Creator and it was surprisingly good. When I saw the trailer I thought that it was going to be an extremely generic and sentimental American action film about a lantern-jawed man protecting his family at all costs. But it’s actually a somewhat subtle and thoughtful genre mashup…
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Jurassic Park (1993)
I watched Jurassic Park many times as a kid. It was the most thrilling and enthralling movie ever made when I was seven years old. As time’s gone by I’ve seen films that surpass it in my personal canon, but it remains an entertaining spectacle. It also remains the single unironically good film in the…
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
“Remember what the MPAA says: horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don’t say any naughty words! That’s what this war is all about!” Such is the cry of an impassioned mother in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s big screen outing for their most famous creation. South…
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A Haunting in Venice (2023)
I just saw A Haunting in Venice and it was first-class junk. I’m not sure what Kenneth Branagh’s motivation is to keep making these Poirot adaptations. He doesn’t seem to like the character much and from what I’ve read he’s not exactly making money hand over fist with them. His Murder on the Orient Express…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Released seven years after the 1984 original, Terminator 2 famously makes a protagonist of the original villain, having Arnie sent back in time not to kill future resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) but to protect him from another killing machine, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a mass of liquid metal that can assume the shape…
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The Blackening (2023)
I just saw The Blackening and it was good. Based on a comedy sketch, it’s a satirical slasher film starring a black cast of actors playing former college friends who reunite at a cabin in the woods, but not before a couple of them make a rest stop at the proverbial rustic gas station run…
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
I just saw Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey for its 55th anniversary at my local cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d seen it before but previously felt that it was a good but cold film, lacking in story apart from the section with HAL 9000 and without human interest. I…
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Strays (2023)
I just saw Strays, a live-action CGI comedy directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Dan Perrault, where effects are used to animate the mouths of real dogs. Will Ferrell voices Reggie, a border terrier whose owner Doug (Will Forte) is a disgusting wad of human garbage who only has him because his ex wanted…
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