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Killer Heat (2024)
Killer Heat opens with private detective Nick Bali (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) arriving on a picturesque Greek island to investigate the accidental death of a wealthy resident Leo Vardakis in a freak climbing accident. He has come at the behest of the deceased man’s sister-in-law Penelope (Shailene…
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Wit (2001)
A room. A doctor. A potential experimentee. Dr Bearing is a scholar in seventeenth-century English poetry. Dr Kelekian is an oncologist. He has bad news for Dr Bearing. It is cancer. The patient seems to be bearing the news as well as one can, given…
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Venom: the Last Dance (2024)
VENOMENAL? NOT QUITE. I rarely watch movies on the first day of its release. Yes, I do sometimes; usually Superstar Rajini’s movies (not all of them!), or something I got super-hyped waiting for—like The Batman (the new one). This time was a fluke thanks once…
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The Critic (2023)
A POLITELY ENGLISH HATE LETTER TO CRITICS A majority of 51% of professional critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website actively dislike “The Critic” while an even larger majority of 71% of paying viewers like it. What does this tell us about the schism between audience…
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Boston Strangler (2023)
STRANGLER DANGLER For those who don’t know about the infamous string of killings that shook Boston in the 1960s — 13 women killed in near-identical circumstances, all strangled to death with the bodies left decorated with a stocking bow tie around the neck — this…
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The Whale (2022)
A WHALE OF A MOVIE ‘The Whale’ is a movie that leaves you heartbroken but satisfied. You root for the protagonist so much that you wish the story had ended differently, because you desperately want him to find redemption, and the happiness that he seeks,…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
ABLE ELBA For fans of the original BBC series, “Luther: The Fallen Sun” picks up where it left us, in a movie sequel. It has all the key elements of the series absolutely intact, on a slightly larger scale. Idris Elba once again plays the…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)
YEOHVERYTHING YEOHRYWHERE ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (EEAAO) is a difficult movie to classify. It blends genres in an unusual way. It is an intense family drama, a love story, a comedy, a science-fiction movie, an action movie and epic adventure with the now done-to-death…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) & The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The post compares two contrasting movies: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ a grand WWI epic, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ an intimate tale of lost friendship in a small Irish village. Despite their differences, both films center on a man’s heartbreaking transformation due to…
