HeyJaredHot Takes on Cinema
Your tasting menu of movies and TV shows, with notes on flavour, texture, and aftertaste
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'Resident Evil' is one hell of a night shift (opens the original)
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Welcome to the worst workday imaginable, that somehow keeps getting worse.There’s dedication to your job, and then there’s Bryan. Most of us would give up somewhere between the car crash, the first mutant and the realisation that the night has gone spectacularly to hell. Resident Evil asks what happens when one painfully ordinary guy tries to make his delivery anyway. The answer is funny, disgusting and occasionally excellent, before the finale starts emptying every magazine it can find.One last
Cinderella goes to the ball in London (opens the original)
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Diplomacy has never looked this close to a nervous breakdown.Kate Wyler is expected to prevent a war, repair diplomatic relations and smile convincingly for photographs. Unfortunately, her husband has interpreted the word “supportive” as permission to conduct his own foreign policy. The Diplomat thrives on characters intelligent enough to understand global strategy, yet remain wonderfully capable of ruining everything through ambition and catastrophic timing.Welcome to the powder keg<a class="im
Lidia Poët had one job and botched the case (opens the original)
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Please rise, because I have several charges to bring against Lidia Poët.The best version of The Law According to Lidia Poët gives its heroine something solid to push against: the law, patriarchy, convention and every smug man convinced that intelligence becomes suspicious when a woman possesses it. Season 3 still has all of those ingredients, but trips over its own hem and turns them into evidence for the prosecution.Catch up on Season 1</span
The film industry is optimising cinema to death (opens the original)
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'The Whisper Man' screams himself to death (opens the original)
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The Whisper Man had my attention, then slowly strangled my patience.For a while, I genuinely thought this one had me. The clues were well placed, the atmosphere did some of the heavy lifting, and the mystery seemed to know when to shut up. Then the conveniences started to pile up, and the characters started helping the plot more than themselves. By the end, I was less invested in the killer than in how much more the story expected me to swallow.A familiar voice<a class="image-link image2 is-view
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