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Despite my dislike for films which think it’s cool to replace title letters with numbers – Se7en being the exemption to that rule – this strange looking hitman film shot in infrared with rapper Travis Scott attached to the project initially looked intriguing. Plus, AGGRO DR1FT is the first film from a new production company helmed by director Harmony Korine, the provocateur behind films like Gummo, Trash Humpers and Spring Breakers. Acquired tastes, sure, but envelope-pushing in their own ways. Then came the screening. Oh boy, the screening. It came. The kindest descriptive is that it’s an unc...
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After his inventive and rather wonderful animated film J’ai perdu mon corps (I Lost My Body), French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin returns with a live action sci-fi feature for his sophomore effort. And he’s still got loss on his mind. While a hand was looking for its body in his first feature, Pendant ce temps sur Terre (Meanwhile on Earth) revolves around another absence – that of Elsa's brother, Franck. The two siblings (Les passagers de la nuit ’s Megan Northam and Sam Louwyck) were close, and nothing was ever the same after the eldest mysteriously disappeared during a space mission three years ...
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How bad is your drive to win? And what if you’re not playing the same game as your opponent? Challengers follows three ambitious tennis players: best friends Patrick (Josh O’Connor) and Art (Mike Faist), and rising star Tashi (Zendaya). When the two boys meet Tashi for the first time, they are adolescent wrecks, both instantaneously lust struck. It’s a libidinous spark that will affect the trio for the rest of their lives, as cocksure Patrick and more reserved Art decide to simultaneously pursue her. She promises to give her phone number to whoever wins the next match. Game on, as the on-court...
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In the near future, the United States isn’t so united anymore. At the heart of the country’s second civil war is a president (Nick Offerman, in non-distractingly Trumpian mode), who refuses to leave the White House. The Fascist-in-Chief has given himself a third term, disbanded the FBI, and used air strikes against American citizens. All for ego. Sound eerily probable? Writer-director Alex Garland (Sunshine, Ex Machina, Annihilation) is counting on it. To a point though, as he keeps things deliberately vague. What we know is carefully drip-fed to us. California and Texas have joined forces to ...
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When stepping out of Welsh director Rose Glass’ debut feature film, 2019’s Saint Maud, I was left in a prolonged dirge that I couldn't shake off. When the rotting fruit bowl I call a brain finally decided to resume its functions, the only think I could think to coherently gasp was: “Fuck.” As my sweary outburst suggests, there’s something so uniquely intoxicating about discovering a new cinematic voice. But with such a layered and nerve-jangling calling card comes the risk of the dreaded sophomore slump. Unwarranted fears, as it turns out, as Glass’ bigger, bolder follow-up only serves to conf...
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There’s been quite a bit of buzz surrounding Australian directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night With The Devil, which premiered over a year ago at SXSW Festival in the US. After some time on the festival circuit, a few wins along the way (Best Screenplay at the 56th Sitges Film Festival; Grand Prix at Hallucinations Collectives), and even a Stephen King endorsement, it’s finally out in cinemas. It even tallied up a suspiciously satanic $666,666 gross on its third day in the US. No joke. All promising signs that we’re in for something special. Late Night With The Devil sets the scen...
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From Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard to Nina in Black Swan or Madeline in Josephine Decker’s criminally underseen Madeline’s Madeline, there is an entire subgenre of (usually female) artists losing their grip on reality. Stopmotion, the debut feature from Robert Morgan, falls into this category, as well as another horror subgenre dealing with the act of filmmaking or filmwatching, like Prano Bailey-Bond's excellent 2021 debut Censor – which also deals with fayed reality. Operating at the intersection of these two genre spaces – with some distinct echoes of Censor throughout – Morgan crafts a...
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Filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen have spent four decades showing how oddball comedies and darkly existential dramas need not exist in segregation. From 1984’s Blood Simple to 2018’s Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, via the highs of Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men, their capacity to mood-merge has been unparalleled. From time to time, each sibling goes their own way, pursuing separate projects behind the camera and leaning into different sensibilities and creative interests. Joel Coen gave us his intense and stark The Tragedy of Macbeth in 2021, ...
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From apparently unadaptable cerebral sci-fi (Arrival) to against-all-odds superior sequels (Blade Runner 2049) via redefining how stressful traffic jams can be (Sicario), Dennis Villeneuve has proven time and time again he can deliver on the seemingly impossible. Adapting Frank Herbert’s famously sprawling (some might say tortuously impenetrable) epic sci-fi novel "Dune" may have been his most ambitious undertaking - especially when considering the space saga previously defeated Alejandro Jodorowsky and made David Lynch label his 1984 effort “a total failure”. His first instalment in 2021 was ...
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