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Disney+
Cinematic junk food: comforting, pleasurable in the moment, but ultimately a bit unsatisfying. In this regard, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE's closest cousin is SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME; similarly to NO WAY HOME, after the initial surge of affection wears off nobody will remember much about this film in two years' time. And, oddly, "affection" is very much the by-word here: looking past the route one plotting, the weird tonal pivoting between self-aware parody and deeply serious melodrama, the obscenely lazy--…
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7.5
Amazon Prime Video (Purchase)
Well isn't this film just charming as all hell? Jack Nicholson as a prickly, frequently hospitalised, Viagra-swlling womaniser who learns the error of his ways? Check. Diane Keaton giving a sensationally empathetic performance as a confidence-lacking middle-aged playwright learning to love again? Big check. Supporting roles for a sassy, feminist Frances Mcdormand AND a hunky, ridiculously charming, post-THE MATRIX Keanu Reeves? Check check check (Jon Favreau is also in this movie for some reason)! Plus,…
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6.5
Blu Ray (88 Films)
Not quite on the same level as the director's wonderful RIKI-OH, all the same THE SEVENTH CURSE is a fun time, combining high-kickin' martial arts action and squelchy body horror with a ludicrous, nonsensical plot and a ton of unnecessary, gratuitous female nudity. It also features Chow Yun-Fat smoking a pipe near continuously and firing a rocket launcher, Maggie Cheung as a spunky journalist and a lengthy final action sequences in which a monster which…
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6.5
Blu Ray
James McAvoy is on monstrously good form as the bad guy in this tense well-made psychological horror-thriller remake. The film retains the same themes as the original of threatened, frustrated masculinity and the death-wish meekness of the middle classes; it also offers bleak social commentary (straying almost into satire at times-- this is definitely a dark comedy) about just how far people will go, just how many micro-aggressions-- hell, aggression-aggressions-- people will ignore in order to avoid…
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★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Oct 2021
9.5
Blu Ray
Rewatch (2nd viewing)
What does it mean to be human? David Cronenberg's Frankenstein-esque cautionary tale stars Jeff Goldblum as a nerdy scientist who accidentally fuses his DNA with a fly, gradually becoming more and more insectile in nature until he literally falls apart.
My personal favourite Cronenberg film, this has everything: the purest expression of his obsession with the malleability and spongy, liquidy grossness, but also the beauty, of the human body; a brilliant lead performance from…
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★★★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2021
9.5
Amazon Prime Video (Rental)
* SPOILERS *
A knowing deconstruction of the revenge thriller, as typified in recent years by the John Wick and Taken franchises (amongst many others), Pig tees up a classic genre scenario: the mysterious loner who has something precious taken from him (in this case, an adorable truffle pig named Apple) and goes on a mission to get it back. The filmmakers then go even further into this territory by casting Nicholas Cage (who as…
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