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As fun and versatile as it has proven to be, even die-hard Alien fans can’t deny that the franchise has been struggling since its beginnings 45 years ago. From the anxiety-inducing huis-clos of Alien (1979) and its war film sequel Aliens (1986), the film series has had more downs than ups. David Fincher reimaged it as a prison thriller in the fairly maligned Alien 3 (1992); Jean-Pierre Jeunet gave it a good go but ended up botching Alien: Resurrection (1997); and Ridley Scott’s return to the series with 2012’s Prometheus was one almighty lore-obsessed mixed bag. The less said about the Alien v...
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There’s bad news and then there’s worse news when it comes to Borderlands. The bad news is that despite TV shows like The Last Of Us and Fallout indicating that the big screen video-game adaptation curse had been broken, Eli Roth’s take on the 2009 sci-fi shooter RPG proves that multi-episode series are the way to go. The worse news is that Borderlands could very well be one of 2024’s worst films, which considering its cast – Cate Blanchett, Jamie-Lee Curtis, Édgar Ramírez, Kevin Hart, Gina Gerson, Jack Black - is quite the catastrophic achievement. The film sees soldier Roland (Hart) joining ...
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Expectations were high for El Eco (The Echo), as one of the greatest films to come out of the Berlin Film Festival in the last decade remains Tatiana Huezo’s 2016 film, Tempestad. The Salvadoran-Mexican director masterfully alternated two narratives in a textured film that examined the consequences of organised crime in Mexico and what mothers will sacrifice in order to protect the ones they love. It’s a poetic and unconventionally immersive film, words that also apply to her third full-length film. This observational documentary takes its name from the remote mountain community in Puebla stat...
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“Welcome to the MCU, by the way. You're joining at a bit of a low point.” Deadpool’s greeting to Wolverine feels appropriate, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe has seen better days. Since the culmination of the Infinity Saga with Avengers: Endgame, the MCU has not only experienced a steady decline in quality but also properly tested the patience of its fans with countless TV shows to keep up with to understand their multiverse shenanigans. Enter Deadpool, who makes his debut in the MCU with his third film, helmed by director Shawn Levy. It’s Marvel’s Hail Mary pass to get its mojo back with its...
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We’re past the halfway mark of 2024 and fall festival season is soon upon us... Time for a lookback at the movies which have already made our year. These are the highlights you should cross off your watchlist if you haven’t already. So far, we’ve been treated to a wide variety of big screen offerings: tear-jerkers, tennis-fueled love triangles, sombre dramas, introspective character studies, surreal neo-noirs and Timothée Chalamet wrestling with a messiah-complex. The criterion for this list is less varied: the movies need to have been released in European cinemas - or online - from January 20...
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Five minutes into Austrian directing duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge)’s third feature Des Teufels Bad (The Devil’s Bath), you know this period piece is not going to be an easy watch. Upper Austria. 1750. A bleak prologue sees a mother traverse the woods, and head towards a waterfall. There, without batting an eyelid, she throws her screaming infant off the ledge. She then heads to the church, knocks on the door, and turns herself in to the authorities. “I have committed a crime.” She is executed. More precisely, she is decapitated, with her fingers and toes cho...
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After the box office acclaim of The Favourite and Poor Things, Yórgos Lánthimos reunites with his long-time writing partner Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) for a strange anthology triptych that is darker and far more surreal than his recent output. Kinds of Kindness tells three distinct stories using the same acting troupe in different roles, and it’ll prove divisive for fans of The Favourite and last year’s Poor Things. This triple helping of Lanthimos’ return to his Greek Weird Wave roots feels like it’s for the OG fans who miss that queasy malaise fel...
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When it was announced that German director Julia von Heinz was going to adapt Australian novelist Lily Brett’s semi-autobiographical novel “Too Many Men”, there was every reason to be excited. Coming off the back of her Venice-premiering Antifa thriller Und morgen die ganze Welt (And Tomorrow The Entire World), von Heinz seemed like the ideal fit for Brett’s novel, a moving, insightful and often comic chronicle of how Ruth, an American businesswoman, brings her father Edek, an Auschwitz survivor, back to Poland to face the past to better confront the future. The 1999 book stands as a thoughtfu...
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In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns, human emotions have become a threat. AI sees feelings of pain, including a broken heart, as limiting the potential of humans. It can erase them. However, getting rid of them means reexperiencing your memories. Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) decides to purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis (George MacKay), and through the centuries, both of them keep connecting, as if cosmically drawn to one another. We follow the couple over three time periods (1910’s Belle Époque, 2014 and 2044) in an odyssey that spans...
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