Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s films are singularly unsettling and voyeuristic; they are uncomfortable, icy and compelling. His 2009 stunner The White Ribbon predicted the Nazi rise to power in Germany via the perpetrators’ childhood cultural traumas. The children went on to kill millions in the …
2017 in Review Plus the Hotly Anticipated Phantom Thread and The Post
Daniel Day-Lewis says he’s made his last film. By my count that’s three times since 2003 that he`s said as much, so I pay zero attention because he’s back in frequent collaborator Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful Phantom Thread. If it is his last gig, what a way to go. The film follows a difficult …
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This Week Sees a Three Day Opening Sweep – Catch the Wave!
I, Tonya is a trip! The sad, low rent story of skating Olympian Tonya Harding whose team infamously hobbled her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan back in 1994 is a masterful and savage biopic that teeters on satire. Harding was born dirt poor and loved skating and became one of the best in the US, a two …
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Actress Lucy Fry talks ‘Bright’ on Netflix Dec 22
Lucy Fry, a young actor from Brisbane Australia plays a force for good in Netflix’ sci fi cop movie Bright. David Ayer’s dark fable is set in a dystopian Los Angeles torn apart by racism and crime and on the brink of collapse. Fry is Tikka, an Elf, and she’s just escaped the death cult run by her …
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All Things Star Wars, Call Me By Your Name, Sundance Chiller and We Cover Christmas Entertainment Like Champs!
According to Fandango, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the top advance ticket- seller of 2017, and one of the best reviewed entries in the fabled series. 96% of respondents to a poll are looking forward to seeing the late Carrie Fisher on the big screen, 94% want to know more about the relationship …