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JESSICA JONES, 2.4 & 2.5 – ‘AKA God Help the Hobo’ & ‘AKA The Octopus’
“AKA God Help the Hobo” It seems like our eponymous heroine has learnt the advantage of speaking out and having a team behind her in “AKA God Help the Hobo”. There’s less hide-and-seek when it comes to dealing with her allies, which, in addition to removing a lot of unnecessary and repetitive exposition that’s bound…
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PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (2018)
A new generation of Jaeger pilots defend the Earth against a new Kaiju threat…
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THE X-FILES, 11.10 – ‘My Struggle IV’
While nowhere near as shambolic as season 10’s finale, “My Struggle IV” was still a disappointing end to The X-Files — perhaps forever? Although without Gillian Anderson as Scully, one has to wonder what the point of making more would be, without overhauling it. It just seems like creator Chris Carter, who wrote and directed this hour,…
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LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (1979)
A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains…
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A WRINKLE IN TIME (2018)
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
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10 Highlights from SXSW 2018
The South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival has certainly grown over its 25 years, with many movies that debut there now becoming Oscar-nominees and landing lucrative Netflix or Amazon streaming deals. Hollywood even goes to SXSW to sell a few big-budget affairs, and this year HBO even had a Westworld-inspired theme park to promote the…
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A PISTOL FOR RINGO (1965) • THE RETURN OF RINGO (1965)
If Hammer had been Italian and made cowboy films, in Spain, they would’ve looked something like these two magnificent examples of the spaghetti western! I only wish I’d seen them at the impressionable age when I first saw Sergio Leone’s Dollar trilogy. I’ve grown up revering the striking visuals, memorable music, and mythic grandeur of…
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TOMB RAIDER (2018)
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared…
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GODARD + GORIN – FIVE FILMS (1968-1971)
A box set with five innovative film collaborations from legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard and maverick film writer Jean-Pierre Gorin, shot in a revolutionary style in an attempt to disseminate explosive political ideas and shake up cinema…
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JESSICA JONES, 2.2 & 2.3 – ‘AKA Freak Accident’ & ‘AKA Sole Survivor’
Just as we were talking about new characters being introduced slowly, Jessica Jones throws us multiple curveballs in the second and third episodes of season 2. Subplots are ten-a-penny now, and being good private investigators ourselves, we know how to keep track… Let’s start with the main event. “AKA Freak Accident” spends most of the…
