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The Phoenician Scheme
Read more: The Phoenician SchemeA lively, labyrinthine fable of grand entrepreneurship and the fickleness of fortune, with perfectly formed aesthetics and jazz-beat editing, cerebrally satisfying in its mannered whimsy, while, at its centre, it warmly nestles a sweet story of fatherly love. Roller-coster ride of international espionage, one-upmanship, high-altitude flirting, and deadly sibling rivalry. ★★★★☆
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Read more: Everything Everywhere All At OnceLike a theme park ride you thought would be fantastic fun, then nausea and disorientation kick in, colours blur. EEAAO holds within a great idea, when one disentangles it from the hairball that is its narrative. In all its originality, it telegraphs its message, instead of allowing this intricately constructed ingenious world be the message.…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Read more: Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryDespite Daniel Craig’s fabulous Southern Belle, pastel-coloured play at James Bond, this oddly fragmented whodunit is more pastiche than a sequel — a collage of clever, lovingly shaped skits struggling to join the narrative stream of a single story, albeit with some of the best cameos in the business. Rides the coattails of its stellar…
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Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early Eighties
Read more: Black Humour in Serbian Films of the Early EightiesExamining the dark heart of laughter the symbiotic relationship of film and its audience, wiring us to think and talk in certain ways, its cultural impact, its myriad semiotic and cinematic legacies – this was my MA dissertation (Birkbeck, 2005), a bungy jump into Serbian (and YU) 80s cinema, four films, two filmmakers, Šijan and…
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Funny Cow
Read more: Funny CowPeake is the eponymous funny cow, a woman with no escape other than in endless repetition of family history, class mentality, gender predicament. This is no comedy — not that it isn’t darkly funny, depicting humour not as a relief, but at the centre of the disease. A punctured ulcer reeking of that which it…
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