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Passages 2023
"I just want to give you a little push."
Seduction can leave us blinded. Beauty can bring our walls tumbling down. Our boundaries can be pushed to the limit when a partner asks for more than we can stand but less than we can deny. Ira Sachs taps into that treacherous balancing act through the impossibly alluring trinity of Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos. These three could power the world on the electricity they spark between one another.…
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Scrapper 2023
A story about the people who slip through the cracks of a fractured system. Social care has failed to protect 12-year-old Georgie who is left alone when her mother dies suddenly and she is left to her own devices. Lola Campbell as Georgie shoulders the narrative spectacularly, exuding a naturalism with a hint of childlike churlishness. When her estranged father played by Harris Dickinson appears, they chart their path to an uneasy reconciliation with years of absence left to untangle.…
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
“Cannibal!”
In memory of the late, great Michael Gambon, I was compelled to revisit the performance I consider his finest: His grotesque turn as the arch villain of Peter Greenaway’s violent vicious classic. As obsessed with bottoms as he is with skulduggery, Gambon’s cockney killer is the crème de la crème of hissable cronies. Director Peter plays puckishly with his film as if he were a chef getting creative with his cuisine. He chops non-diegetic music into diegetic. He blends…
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A Haunting in Venice 2023
Back when Branagh decided to revive Hercule Poirot, the gap in the murder mystery market was wide open. Yet just two years after his fateful and rather lacklustre adventure on the Orient Express, Poirot began to pale in comparison to the new kid on the block: Benoit Blanc. Complete with a ridiculous accent and a canny knack for unravelling plots, Daniel Craig’s detective breathed new life into a type of film that was becoming recyclable, disposable and formulaic with Kenny…
