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Quentin Tarantino says he wants to make a comedy
Director suggests he is thinking about making a spaghetti western in which ‘everybody's speaking a different language' at Rome film festivalQuentin Tarantino “wants to make a comedy”, he says, though [...]
Wed, Oct 20, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
Dear Evan Hansen review – satanically ingenious musical is suffocatingly ersatz
Story of lonely boy who feigns friendship with a dead peer has a smart premise but is wretchedly executedBy the end of its long running time, there's something entirely unbearable [...]
Wed, Oct 20, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
7 Prisoners review – devastating but compelling trafficking drama
Alexandre Moratto's feature about workers lured into modern-day slavery in Brazil takes an unexpected turnYou would expect a film about human trafficking and modern-day slavery to be devastating, and this [...]
Wed, Oct 20, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
Look who’s stalking: how the slasher movie screamed its way back
The return of Halloween, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream is just the beginning of a bullish comeback for the subgenre that will never dieLike the bloody, [...]
Wed, Oct 20, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Bigfoot Hunters review – hipster Sasquatch hijinks lampooning Vice Media videos
Mockumentary sends a jaded TV reporter on the trail of the mysterious monster with moderately funny consequencesThis passably funny mockumentary, which lampoons Vice Media's gonzo-hipster journalism, could serve as a [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
Shock, horror and the usual hairy suspects: everyone’s included at Sitges film festival
Prestigious fare such as Justin Kurzel's Nitram rubbed shoulders with Taiwanese zombie movies and a werewolf retrospective at Spain's fantasy and horror show“I don't know about you, but I've been [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
Cryptozoo review – trippy animation about magical creatures packs a punch
Dash Shaw's counterfactual fantasy, a 1960s-set, nudity-filled sprawl about ‘cryptids' and shady US agencies, is uniqueUtterly bizarre in the best possible way, this lovingly handmade animated feature by writer-director Dash [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
Playlist review – relatable, quirky Parisian quarter-life drama
Graphic novelist Sophie is disillusioned with adulthood in Nine Antico's black and white drama of twentysomething lifeThis is not a perfect film but it is an interesting one. French graphic [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
We Need to Do Something review – doom and gloom in the bathroom
Scrappy Halloween fare set in a bathroom delivers more whimper than bang in its end-of-the-world horrorA decade ago, Jeff Nichols directed Take Shelter, a remarkably prophetic, big-picture drama with Michael [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
At the Ready: the Latino teens training to be border patrol agents
In a complex, eye-opening new documentary, El Paso high schoolers hold complicated reasons for wanting to become part of a divisive institution The US border with Mexico is a region [...]
Tue, Oct 19, 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com