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The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
French writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is a delicate, heart-rending period piece about teenage hopes and aspirations. I was very pleased to have the opportunity to view his first two movies, restored to their full glory on a…
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VENOM (2018)
When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he has to release his alter-ego ‘Venom’ to save his life…
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CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.9 – ‘Wiedersehen’
Taking and making plans. Having enjoyed herself with the con to keep Huell from doing time, the opening of “Wiedersehen” involved another scam. Kim (Rhea Seahorn) essentially had to switch the building plans for the Mesa Verde bank planned for construction in Lubbock, Texas, so posed as a frazzled mother on crutches to endear herself to…
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SUMMER OF 84 (2018)
After suspecting their neighbour is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence…
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MONKEY SHINES: AN EXPERIMENT IN FEAR (1988)
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis until the little simian begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
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HOUSE OF SALEM (2016)
A group of kidnappers become a child’s unlikely protectors after discovering they’ve unwittingly been set up to take part in a satanic ritual…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.8 – ‘Coushatta’
A good defence is a good offence. The opening scenes of “Coushatta” confused me, making me forget where things had left off in “Something Stupid”. I couldn’t fathom why Kim (Rhea Seehorn) was waving Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) off on a long coach trip to Louisiana, to the titular town of Coushatta, until later in this episode.…
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IRON FIST – Season Two
The first season of Iron Fist was plagued with issues: it had too many villains, too little character development, terrible action scenes, a lack of structure, and a host of pacing problems. There was no question about it, season 2 needed to be better, so it has a new showrunner in Raven Metzner (Elektra, Sleepy Hollow),…
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TRACK 29 (1988)
A doctor’s wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth.
