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The two-part book adaptation has been a contentious issue in film for well over a decade. The Harry Potterfilms started a trend by splitting Deathly Hallows into two entries, followed by other entries like the Twilightseries and the Hunger Games franchise. Debate quickly surfaced about whether this was necessary to allow for the breadth of the prose to be fully realised, or whether it was done mostly as a cynical cash grab done purely for financial gain. Funnily enough, opinions generally leaned towards the latter view.

Continue reading “Review: Dune Part Two”

These two turned out to be a great watch one after the other due to similarities in theme. And they both stand strong on their own merit. Also, Cineworld showed an anniversary screening of Interstellar. Nice.

Continue reading “Double Review: American Fiction, The Holdovers (+Interstellar 10th Anniversary Rewatch)”

Yep, there’s a lot to offload here. Four bigguns’ of varying quality, with one of them taking the current podium position as my favourite film of the year so far (Hint: It ain’t Wonka. Or The Boy and the Heron. Or The Iron Claw).

Continue reading “Quadruple Review: Wonka, The Boy and the Heron, The Zone of Interest, The Iron Claw”

Two short film reviews, and two films which are pretty different despite the fact that they rhyme. Anyway, read on.

Continue reading “Double Review: Maestro, Society of the Snow”

One of these things is not like the other. In that one film is a gorgeous treatise on love, loss and loneliness while the other is a film starring Jason Statham where he does his usual Jason Statham exploding things and generally messing things up in the name of justice/revenge whatever. I daresay you’ll be able to work out which is which.

Continue reading “Double Review: The Beekeeper, All of Us Strangers”