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January 8, 2016 in Films, Reviews
The Revenant
There’s a lot of like about The Revenant, a harsh tale of survival circa 1823 where frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) struggles against impossible odds – well, an Indian attack followed by being mauled by a bear and then fellow survivor John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) leaves him to die, only he doesn’t, which is bad news for John.
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December 25, 2015 in Films, Reviews
The Good Dinosaur
Remember how, earlier this year, Pixar made pretty much the ultimate Pixar film in Inside Out? Well, this is pretty much the opposite of that.
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December 24, 2015 in Films, Reviews
The Night Before
For the last 10 years three friends – Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) – have spent the night before Christmas partying hard to take Ethan’s mind off his dead parents.
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December 23, 2015 in Films, Reviews
The Danish Girl
It’s the 1920s, and Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) is the toast of Copenhagen’s artistic scene. His wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), also a painter, asks him to model a dress for one of her works, and gradually he begins to spend more and more time living as a woman named Lili.
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December 22, 2015 in Films, Reviews
Suffragette
The fight for women’s right to vote – or “suffrage” – took different forms all over the world, but in the United Kingdom in the years before World War One, a lengthy struggle with little progress led to a growing radicalisation of the movement – which is a tricky thing to dramatise.
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December 20, 2015 in Films, Reviews, Tidbits
Best and worst films of 2015
If there’s one thing that can be said about the movies we saw in 2015, it’s that there was a lot to choose from.
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December 10, 2015 in Films, Reviews
Love the Coopers
Like all major holidays, Christmas is a time for movies where a whole lot of people have individual stories that may or may not come together for a big rousing conclusion. Love, Actually has had the holiday to itself for far too long; now it’s time for the extended Cooper family to stake their claim.
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December 10, 2015 in Films, Reviews
The Look of Silence
Not so much a follow-up as a new angle on Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing examination of the Indonesian anti-communist massacres of 1965, The Act of Killing.
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December 8, 2015 in Films, Reviews
By the Sea
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how to make a story about a couples’ low-key marriage woes actually watchable – if for no other reason than to sell that secret to the ABC to spice up their “quality dramas” – By the Sea has it sorted. Just make sure the couple is insanely good-looking.
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