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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
Without doubt a significant improvement on the Crystal Skull, for the most part Dial of Destiny succeeds at capturing the charm and overall feel of the original trilogy. Back to shooting in real world global locations with fewer hokey special effects than its predecessor this looks like an Indy movie, and for the first two thirds of the film it captures a lot of what I loved about the originals. This time around Indy is back to doing what he…
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The Intern 2015
This is a pleasant enough movie where not much really happens, and it’s basically just two hours or Robert DeNiro being a nice old man and Anne Hathaway seeing what a nice old man he is. Then it just ends suddenly.
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Midsommar 2019
It’s only when you watch a horror film shot almost entirely in the daytime that you realise just how much other movies within the genre rely on darkness. Midsommar is dazzlingly bright and colourful, and yet is by far the best horror film to hit screens this year.
Following the shocking death of her sister and parents, Dani (Florence Pugh) suffers from severe bouts of anxiety and depression. Her douchey boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) is only intermittently attentive, and is…
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The Reflecting Skin 1990
It goes without saying that some pretty horrible things happen in The Reflecting Skin, but to call it a horror is a real stretch. It’s a drama, and unfortunately not even a very good one at that.
Set in 1950s Idaho the film follows a young boy called Seth (Jeremy Cooper) who lives on a run down looking petrol station with his subdued, indifferent father and his slightly loopy, bitter mother. Over the course of the film Seth starts to…
