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Nicholas Britell and Hanz Zimmer Take Home First Major Wins at The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA)

November 17, 2021

The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) are the first domino to fall in the long award season. The group that encompases such a wide range of scores and songs into the show, from genres like horror and fantasy to “independent film ” (lol). It’s a nice celebration of music in Hollywood
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Happy Birthday Martin Scorsese: ranking his weirdest films

November 17, 2021

Martin Scrosese isn’t known for the avant-garde. He certainly takes ideas from those directors and creatives and incorporates some into his films, but he works within the conventions of modern film and doesn’t deviate too far. That said, Scorsese is an unfettered weird person with a deeply contemplative disposition that sees past archetypes and explores people at their core. This idealistic view of humanity leads him to bizarre discoveries in his work
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Belfast is a Heartfelt Love Letter to a Time and Place

November 16, 2021

Belfast is a film that feels so idiosyncratic to its director, Kenneth Branagh, that it had to be personally experienced in real life, making the film feel so personal to its creator. A heartfelt, crowd-pleaser that conveys such an endearing love for a time, place, and people. A joyous story that celebrates people doing their best amid any circumstance. The connection between the family and their neighbors is pure, showing a world where we’re not defined by the worst aspects, but find the good in life. Guaranteed to leave a smile on each audience member’s face. … More Belfast is a Heartfelt Love Letter to a Time and Place

Kristen Stewart delivers an all-time great portrayal of a monumental figure in Spencer

November 16, 2021

Pablo Larrain’s Spencer shows the intense internalized battle being waged against the crown, as Princess Diana’s (Kristen Stewart) agency is stolen away, putting every aspect of her life under a microscope. Isolating, alienating performance from Stewart and direction from Larrain, captures a fictional, yet a real portion of her life that attempts to hide from the public. In Stewart’s performance, we see that struggle inside her through physicality. … More Kristen Stewart delivers an all-time great portrayal of a monumental figure in Spencer

“You have meddle with the Primal Forces of Nature, Mr. Beal”

November 15, 2021

It’s a film that utilizes the multinational Ecumenical Liberation Army, a scathing lunatic turned prophet in Howard Beale as the nightly news anchor, the concerning power grab of Saudi conglomerates buying up US news media and the implications, and finally, an idealistic version of capitalism with the greatest monologue arguably of all-time. … More “You have meddle with the Primal Forces of Nature, Mr. Beal”

Scottsdale Film Festival: Do Not Hesitate only scratches the surface of wartime psychology

November 13, 2021

The psychology of war is a tricky thing. War takes good natured men and turns them into machines, scaring the life out of them and making distrust a necessity for survival. It programs the youngest of adults, the most impressionable among us, with no capacity for dealing with life-or-death situations and brings out their worst instincts. Emotion needs to be stripped to make a good soldier, but what about the fallout of this stripped humanity?
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Which Sadomasochist Hellraiser Cenobite is best?

November 13, 2021

The extra-dimensional, sadomasochist Hellraiser Cenobites out of Clive Barker’s novella and the 1987 film are a trademark of weird cinema. Any extra-dimensional being that finds pleasure in equal parts due to pain and mental suffering will have some play on this site, so we’ll break down the best of the best.
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