Some films resist an in-depth review. With Burning, the sentiment is two-fold, for not only is Lee Chang-Dong’s newest feature so crucially dependent upon being viewed with as little prior knowledge as possible, but is charged with the sort of visual mastery that pertains solely to cinema. Still, if there’s one film released this year…
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First Man – There’s a flag controversy? This movie’s great
Right from that opening sequence, this movie draws you in: Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) is in the cockpit of an X-15 on a test flight. Despite his face being hidden inside his helmet, you can sense his panic and it feels like you are there with him. The close-up shots give this cockpit a claustrophobic…
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UEA TV host screening of 48 hour film challenge at the forum
On Tuesday 30 October, UEATV held their first 48 Hour Film Challenge screening. Held at the Norwich Forum, the evening saw the products of over thirty of UEATVs’ members who produced the short films in only two days. Industry professionals awarded those who participated for their contributions. The awards included: Best Dialogue; Team Yellow –…
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Blade: the most underrated superhero film of the last twenty years
Black Panther: praised for its ‘unprecedented’ inclusion of a black lead in a superhero film. Deadpool: lauded as the first commercially successful R-rated Marvel movie. And yet, neither of these films deserve the credit. Both honours belong to director Stephen Norrington’s 1998 horror-action film, Blade. With the movie celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, one…
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Review: 22 July
In a poem about the German occupation of Norway, Norwegian writer Nordahl Grieg states that: “We are so few in this country/Each fallen is friend and brother.” Both Grieg’s poetry and this mentality from the war-years resurfaced among the Norwegian people after July 22 2011, when 77 people were killed in coordinated terrorist attacks. Eight people died…
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Mississippi Burning and the White Gaze
Mississippi Burning is a tense historical thriller that tells the story of the FBI investigation into the murder of three civil rights activists during the Freedom Summer campaign by several KKK members. The film won an Oscar and has a fantastic cast, starring Gene Hackman as Agent Anderson and Willem Defoe as Agent Ward. Many…
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A Star is Born: more than just a love story?
If you have not yet been to see Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born, starring himself and Lady Gaga, then I strongly recommend that you do. A heartfelt, tragic love story between a breathtakingly talented woman and a troubled rock star, who encourages her to shine, this film is undoubtedly Cooper’s finest piece of work…
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Bring the Martinis Because A Simple Favour is a Trip
“Secrets are like margarine, easy to spread, bad for the heart.” Literally. Paul Feig and Jessica Sharzer’s vivacious adaptation of Darcey Bell’s 2017 addictive novel, A Simple Favour, brings together the famous faces of Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Blake Lively (The Age of Adelaide) and Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding to produce a two punch…
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Venue reviews: Book club
When picturing Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen taking turns face-pulling at Fifty Shades of Grey, it becomes starkly obvious how much Book Club screams ‘boardroom epiphany’. With only the vaguest tonal resemblance to Nancy Meyers’ films, Bill Holderman’s debut is unavoidably a star vehicle targeted at a certain generation; the club itself…
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