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At this point, Pokémon has ample characters to support just about any holiday. Ghosts have been around since the original Generation and have been grandfathered into Halloween, especially the iconic triple-evolution series of Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar. Since then, numerous classic Pokémon like Chandelure have been introduced, while others have settled comfortably into the Autumn
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This is afantastic film, in all senses of the word. Brad Bird, part of the original Pixar brain trust, who contributed to arguably one of the late golden ages of American feature animation, is back with awork – alabour of love, no less – that would happily rub its chrome-plated shoulders among the eccentric likes
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A spiritual summation of Yeoh’s career until that point,The Stunt Womansets out to explore alandscape of rampant risk, but doesn’t go very far. Wide-eyed and ambitious yet playful and sensitive, Yeoh’s eponymous character Ah Kam hustles her way into astunt unit, led by Master Tung (Sammo Hung, astalwart action filmmaker himself). She becomes emotionally enmeshed
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Dark Souls III released in 2016, wrapping up the main trilogy of the critically acclaimed action RPG series from FromSoftware, with Dark Souls: Remastered following in 2018. While its incredible difficulty and dark fantasy world helped the franchise stand out in the gaming genre, its mysterious lore and ever-expanding mythology also contributed to its enduring
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Kopple’s film itself has an elegiac quality to it, the rugged beauty in her setting and in the weathered faces of its working-class inhabitants often reading as testimony from avanished world. Yet part of the reason why the years have been kind is that the film is so steeped in nostalgia to begin with. It’s
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Gerard Butler’s best action franchise mixes Jack Ryan with Die Hard, and against all logic, it’s becoming even more popular after switching main characters. After 300, Gerard Butler action movies became an in-demand subgenre unto themselves. In truth, the Scottish star didn’t have great luck trying to break out of that mold, with the likes
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At the absolute least, debutant director Padraic McKinley is probably going to be bombarded with work offers on the back of this feisty first feature about agroup of convicts coerced into assisting with agold heist during the Great Depression. Ethan Hawke is really quite good as aclean-cut shitkicker named Murphy who is sent down for
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In Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, ancient Troy is played by the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, an 11th-century Moroccan fortress known for imposing mountain ranges nearby, golden Saharan sun and a30 per cent tax rebate. The film has attracted considerable debate about historical authenticity, with intrigued onlookers scrutinising everything from costume to casting. Nobody, however, seems
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Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega are two of the big names involved with Netflix’s Jurassic Park franchise series focused on the sci-fi universe’s Jurassic World era, and this long-running project perfectly recaptures all the elements that made the franchise’s first film so great. Jurassic Park is one of the most iconic franchises in cinematic history,
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For those still bitter that renegade Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu’s divisive theatreland satire Birdman beat out Richard Linklater’s Boyhood for the best picture Oscar in 2015, his latest dramedy sounds like athreat rather than apromise. Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, the larger-than-life American oligarch who’s accidentally doomed the world with his reckless North
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For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it, granting women who might otherwise have no income adegree of independence. It was also one of Sudan’s great colonial commodities, grown for wealth that largely travelled elsewhere. In Suzannah Mirghani’s Cotton Queen, those fibres come
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Primetime and Heart of the Beast are among the star-studded titles completely shaking up the domestic box office chart this weekend. A24’s Primetime was directed by Ren Faire‘s Lance Oppenheim and stars Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, while Paramount’s Heart of the Beast was helmed by The Beekeeper director David
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We’re calling it the biggest Oscar snub of modern times – Charles Melton should have been recognised for his tremendous performance in Todd Haynes’ May December as ayoung man groomed by and subsequently married to an older woman (played by Julianne Moore). He didn’t allow that to worry him, and instead leaned into his work,
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