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2018: Summer Blockbuster Appraisal
Thanos clicked with Marvel fans; The Rock eventually crumbled; big monsters ate rivals; superheroes flew higher; Star Wars’s box office was ‘so low’; the impossible Tom Cruise proved unmissable, and never underestimate an Abba sing-a-long…
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UPGRADE (2018)
Set in a near-future where technology controls nearly all aspects of life, a technophobe has his world turned upside-down, and his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.4 – ‘Talk’
My concerns about the imbalance of Better Call Saul was compounded by “Talk”, because Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) storyline is by far the least interesting of the three in play, unless you count Kim’s (Rhea Seehorn) work ennui. I was worried this might happen without Jimmy’s brother around to keep things prickly, and after four episodes…
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THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS (2018)
When the puppet cast of a 1990s children’s TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
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BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018)
An African-American police officer from Colorado successfully infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, with the help of a white surrogate who eventually becomes head of the local branch…
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THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL SOCIETY (2018)
In the aftermath of WWII, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war…
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The Poetic Trilogy • GABBEH (1996) • THE SILENCE (1998) • THE GARDENER (2012)
A collection of Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s movies, comprising his ‘Poetic Trilogy’…
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GAME NIGHT (2018)
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.3 – ‘Something Beautiful’
There’s widening a disparity at the heart of Better Call Saul, as the storylines focusing on its star, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), are often much smaller in scale than whatever Mike (Jonathan Banks) and Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) are up to. And now the show’s lost Jimmy’s brother Chuck, who made for a great foil and…
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THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME (2018)
Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of them discovers a boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.
