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Just Play Dead review â Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper (opens the original)
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Jackson and Green just about manage to distract viewers from the sub-par Tarantinoesque flourishes, confusing plot points and tired stereotypes Having shot five films since 2020, 82-year-old Martin Campbell is a certified member of the post-retirement directorâs club that includes Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen et al. Samuel L Jackson (a mere 77) sports his worst hairdo since Jackie Brown â a grey, crimped ponytail with an undercut â in this overworked crime caper, though he is
Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper - AOL (opens the original)
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Having shot five films since 2020, 82-year-old Martin Campbell is a certified member of the post-retirement director’s club that includes Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen et al. Samuel L Jackson (a mere 77) sports his worst hairdo since Jackie Brown – a grey, crimped ponytail with an undercut – in this overworked crime caper, though he is on positively cuddly form by his standards. Interrupting his retirement on a Spanish-speaking Caribbean island with the odd poisoning (seen in the in
Heresy review – feminist folk horror summons something scary in the woods with supply of fresh blood - AOL (opens the original)
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Before fertility tourism, the only option for your average medieval serf struggling to conceive was heading to the nearest foreboding woods and summoning weird, antlered dryads. Or so it seems from Didier Konings’ short but memorable folk-horror debut, in which wide-eyed villager Frieda (Anneke Sluiters) flees into the trees after escaping an attempted rape by local butcher Gelo (Léon van Waas). He has already told her, after scoffing a pig foetus, that he likes his meat weak and defenceless. Th
Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life - AOL (opens the original)
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While 2013’s The Wind Rises and 2023’s The Boy and the Heron saw Hayao Miyazaki break his wizard’s staff, artistically speaking, this lesser-known Studio Ghibli cut from 1995, based on his screenplay, shows he was dwelling on creative responsibilities from early on. Featuring a typical Ghibli protagonist on the brink of adulthood – aspiring schoolkid writer Shizuku (voiced by Yōko Honna) – this teen romance doubles up as an earnest pep talk on how to commit to the artistic life. It’s not quite a
Goody Goody review â intriguing natural childbirth horror lurches into demonic occult blowout (opens the original)
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After Samantha Robinson decides a forest cabin in deep winter is the perfect spot to bear her child, itâs going to be a very bad shift for the doula and midwife Conception, pregnancy and childbirth are defining human experiences, and so remain perennial themes for horror, from Rosemaryâs Baby to the Alien franchise to Prevenge. Occupying a no-womanâs-land between life and death, theyâre innately anxiety-inducing, perhaps making it harder for film-makers to supply a truly individual take.
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