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Film Reviews

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

As much as I loathe to agree with the idea of Hollwood cash-grabs masquerading as universe-expanding prequels and seemingly on-demand spin-offs, J. K. Rowling’s first foray into the pre-Potter Wizarding…

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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Three

My last two days at the film festival were nothing but mellow (what, no wild parties in Cannes?), and have completely resigned to seeing one film per day. Which means missing out…

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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Two

No amount of Cannes adrenaline rush could ever make me feel super enthusiastic waking up at the crack of morning to catch an 8.30 screening of a major film in…

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The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part One

Love affairs can be enduring. Some are more short-lived than most. Cannes Film Festival, for me, was the one that got away. I thought I’d never be back here again.…

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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2017 Edition

Ah, what a time to be alive. Don’t you just truly, genuinely, appreciate the fact that you and I (and everyone reading this joint) are all awake and breathing right…

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The Best of Cinema: 2017 Video Edition

What a hell of a year. Just in case you thought I disappeared into the Great Cosmic Limbo, here I am, still on track, treading on Earth but now living…

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Film Reviews

Jackie (2017)

Grief, at least on this planet, spares no one. Not even a magnificently bejewelled, bouffant-haired, Chanel-coutured First Lady of the United States, who is naturally expected to project impeccable poise…

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Film Reviews

Gold (2017)

If the likes of Mud, Interstellar, Dallas Buyers Club, True Dectective and The Wolf of Wall Street haven’t convinced you of The McConaughey Effect, something must be wrong with you.…

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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2016 Edition

Whatever the hell Martin Scorcese’s been smoking these days, I’m not having any of it. Spouting untruths like a proclaimer of gospels, he righteously preaches “Cinema is gone!”, after which millions of over-stressed…

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The Best of Cinema: 2016 Supercut

The Year 2016 was a year we’d all love to hate. Alright, ‘hate’ is too strong a word and there’s certainly too much of that in our planet already. Nonetheless, we might as well eschew 2016 A.D., reduce it into a blip or a little fart in the history of our species for once again, more than any other year, humankind proved its incurable capacity for Grand Idiocy.

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Film Reviews

Allied (2016)

Let’s get that damn elephant out of the room. The private lives of our silver screen stars theoretically have no place in the judgement of the cinematic products we consume,…

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Film Reviews

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)

Just when you thought J.K. Rowling hadn’t milked those gloriously prosperous udders of the Harry Potter royalty cow enough, the prolific writer pulls a volte-face on that “no more Harry…

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London Film Festival 2016: Part One

There’s nothing like an autumn season film festival that can drag me out of my hole than London Film Festival, this frenetic city’s premier twelve-day movie marathon. OK, it’s not exactly…

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Film Reviews

Me Before You (2016)

I cannot begin to tell you, dear reader, how much I actively despise the existence of this movie. Not only does its title scream of horrid selfishness (‘me’ comes before ‘you’, even…

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Film Reviews

Possession (1981)

Divorce ain’t easy. Same in real life as it is in movies, the conscious uncoupling of the human species are most likely prone to jealousy, selfishness and bitter break-ups rather…

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Film Reviews

The Neon Demon (2016)

Anyone au fait with the cinema of Nicolas Winding Refn must know by now that the man doesn’t do safe, in the same practical way as, say for example, his…

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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2015 Edition

Now that I’ve finally emerged from the turkey coma season and reluctantly dragged my arse back to my desktop, it’s that part of the calendar again to swiftly assemble the…

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The Best of Cinema: 2015 Edition Supercut

To us, cinephiles, there’s rarely anything better to do at this butt-end of the year than to gaze back at the great and glorious time we’ve all had at the…

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Carol (2015)

There’s rarely anything out there that feels as deeply as Carol. Todd Haynes’ achingly sublime, artful evocation of love is a rarefied, nearly-extinct breed of cinema that breathes life into the classically…

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Film Reviews

Love (2015)

It must be hard being labelled as a “provocateur” these days. In this hardly shockable 21st century, to be a filmmaker of outrage must come with such exorbitant amount of…

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