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Just In: A Traveler’s Needs: Isabelle Huppert leads Hong Sang-soo’s latest enigma

19Feb

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Just In: A Traveler’s Needs: Isabelle Huppert leads Hong Sang-soo’s latest enigma

2/5 starsKorean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo returns to the Berlin International Film Festival with his latest film A Traveler’s Needs, another modestly scaled piece – albeit this time featuring that icon of world cinema, Isabelle Huppert.Despite Huppert’s presence, there is no discernible change in style from a director who might be dubbed a master of inaction.Huppert plays Iris, a mystery woman in Korea. When we first meet her, she is teaching a young woman French, which seems to be her way of supporting herself in the country.Dressed in a distinct green cardigan, straw hat and summer dress, she uses a cassette recorder to aid her work and has a habit of inquiring about the woman’s innermost feelings. Soon, formalities give way and she is drinking the Korean alcoholic drink makgeolli with her...

19Feb

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Just In: Terror in the Aisles | Reelviews Movie Reviews

Terror in the Aisles is a clip-fest. With excerpts from nearly 80 horror movies that run the gamut from classics to long-forgotten duds, the film provides glimpses of cinematic scares and gore covering the period between the 1930s and the early 1980s. With an emphasis on the then-new slasher genre and its best-known representatives (particularly Halloween and its sequel, Friday the 13th and its sequel, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), the film offers an unexpurgated (none of the R-rated material is censored for violence, gore, or nudity) trip down memory lane. Although largely made obsolete by YouTube, this was a surprisingly popular theatrical release around Halloween 1984 and was frequently rented when it appeared on VHS the following year.Unlike many similar movies (almost all of which...

Just In: Another End: Gael Garcia Bernal lights up a derivative sci-fi tale

18Feb

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Just In: Another End: Gael Garcia Bernal lights up a derivative sci-fi tale

3.5/5 starsPremiering in competition at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, Piero Messina’s tale of grief and memory set in the near future begins with a clever bit of word play.The words “Not here” are spelled out from the film’s title, Another End. And this is exactly what the film is about: loved ones who are gone but not forgotten. In the sci-fi- tinged world it depicts, technology has been developed to allow us to say our goodbyes even after our nearest and dearest have died.Memories can be uploaded into a willing host, a person who volunteers to become a surrogate over a series of sessions, allowing the client to access the person who’s been taken away from them.Sal (Gael García Bernal, looking at his most mournful) is the grieving widower, having lost his wife, Zoe, in a car accident for...

Just In: Film critic called out by fans for refusing to review Madame Web

18Feb

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Just In: Film critic called out by fans for refusing to review Madame Web

A popular film critic has been called out by fans for refusing to review Marvel's latest movie release, Madame Web.For those not looking for a conventional love story on Valentine's Day, Madame Web was the perfect choice as it released on 14 February.The new release tells the story of Cassandra Webb, a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance.But - in typical Marvel fashion - great power comes with great responsibility as she must protect three woman, played by Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney, Isabella Merced and Celeste O'Connor, from a man who wants them dead. Of course, the S.J. Clarkson directed project was not as looked forward to compared to other Marvel projects. But it is still a Marvel film at the end of the day, so that's pretty exciting, right?Well, not exactly...