Once the film settles into its cat-and-mouse game, the big question is what will happen next? The short answer is nothing for a long timeIf Last Tango in Paris, American Pie and the pastrami sandwich episode of Seinfeld didn’t do enough to warn us about the dangers of food-related eroticism, along comes the Australian director Cate Shortland’s psycho-sexual thriller Berlin Syndrome. Early in the...
The Emoji Movie review – a big thumbs down 👎 – The Guardian
This 💩 corporate clickbait exercise pretends to be a film for kids, but is actually trying to cross-sell apps to a tween audienceChildren should not be allowed to watch The Emoji Movie. Their impressionable brains simply aren’t set up to sift through the thick haze of corporate subterfuge clouding every scene of this sponsored-content post masquerading as a feature film. Adults know enough to...
Films beginning with W – The Guardian
The Wages of Fear(Henri Georges Clouzot, 1953) Four down-and-outs must drive a convoy of nitro-glycerine through the South American jungle. The slightest bump on the treacherous roads could mean death, but Clouzot’s gripping thriller favours psychological portraits over action, exploring the desperate rivalry, greed and ironic fates of his tough-guy characters. Wall Street (Oliver Stone...
Iran unveils nearly dozen upgraded missile defense systems with … – Press TV
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Pet Sematary review – disinterred and definitely shaken – The Guardian
This second attempt at a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s dark tale of a family pet rising from the dead mixes things up to chilling effectStephen King once described his output as “the literary equivalent of a Big Mac” – nothing fancy, but it feeds the needs of the audience. While many of King’s early novels (up until 1987’s self-reflexive Misery) fulfilled that reliable fast-food remit...
Jon Finch obituary – The Guardian
In the 1970s, it seemed a sure bet that the actor Jon Finch, who has died aged 70, would become a durable film star of some magnitude. He had the dark good looks, the voice, the charisma and the opportunities. At the beginning of his film career, he played the title role in Roman Polanski’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972). Around the same...
Matilda the Musical kicks off the London film festival as Netflix banks … – The Guardian
The rights to Dahl’s work has been the streaming service’s most expensive content deal to date, so Matthew Warchus’s new film needs to work its magic London film festival 2022: Peter Bradshaw’s top 12 picksNerves are always high on the opening night of the London film festival. But when this year’s edition begins on Wednesday, it won’t just be the cast, crew and British Film Institute bigwigs who...
FIFA World Cup moments: Kuwait's Prince Fahad gets France's goal chalked off in the 1982 controversial clash – Sports News , Firstpost – Firstpost
Kuwait’s tryst with the FIFA World Cup was brief. It was short enough to be lost in the history books, but a moment during their short stint keeps their footballing exploits at the highest level in memory. A debut World Cup appearance is often a feat to be cherished for ages to come, but in Kuwait’s case, who made the headlines for all the wrong reasons at Spain 1982, it was anything...
NBL23 basketball news: Adelaide 36ers capitulate in New Year’s … – Code
18 points up, seven minutes to play — game over, right? What unfolded on New Year’s Eve left Adelaide 36ers’ coach “p*****” and will go down as one of the NBL’s all-time capitulations.It should have been a walk in the park.On the back of four straight wins, the Adelaide 36ers were hitting their straps.And then, in the space of six minutes and 41 seconds, they weren’t.Here’s an in...
Have we gone from Marvel fatigue to Marvel exhaustion? – The Guardian
Mixed reviews for Thor: Love and Thunder make it just the latest MCU entry to under-deliver, extending what might be the franchise’s worst eraHas the Marvel Cinematic Universe entered its flop era? From a box office perspective, certainly not: the mounds of money amassed by Thor: Love and Thunder this past weekend – and the records shattered by multiple generations of Spider-Men last Christmas –...