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By Anne Brodie Greek mythology comes vividly to life in Uberto Pasolini’s the Return in theatres today. It tells the story of King Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) 1200 years before Christ’s birth who left Ithaca to fight the Trojan War on mainland Greece. For reasons that are not made clear beyond …
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By Anne Brodie The Martin Scorsese-produced doc Beatles ’64 is a wonderful holiday treat for music lovers and historians. Of course, he did it with a little help from his friends Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, the surviving members of the most influential rock band ever. John Lennon was …
By Anne Brodie The first thing to notice about Wicked Part 1 is how expensive it looks. And its one of the most heavily promoted movie events in a long while, wall-to-wall TV interviews, ads, themes and digital banners, on pillows, hats, blankets, bags, tees, games etc... enough to turn any …
Cara Gee is a mysterious figure in Adam Stern’s alarming sci-fi thriller Levels, a look at what could lie ahead for us as AI gains power. Gee’s Ash, and Joe (Peter Mooney) are new lovers but one horrifying day, Joe witnesses Ash’ vicious murder in broad daylight. Joe will step inside a toxic AI …
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By Anne Brodie Here, Robert Zemeckis’ history of a place over its lifetime of millions of years, ice ages, extinctions, renewal, and modern times takes an unusual approach to storytelling. A home sprouts up in the last century where primordial ooze had been and where meteorites had crashed, and …
