Daisy Ridley
I think the best thing about Martin Campbell’s Cleaner is that it knows exactly what it wants to be and doesn’t aspire to push beyond those limitations. Better yet, it doesn’t want to try to one-up its obviously biggest influence, Die Hard, both being movies about a corporate party interrupted by terrorists while someone runs […]
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Ever wondered what it would be like if you took a beloved character from children’s literature and gave it a modern-day facelift? Imagine no further, as Peter Rabbit has just done it for you, with all the cuteness of Beatrix Potter’s fabled 1902 creation combined with the YouTube generation’s nasty bite and mean spirit. Throw […]
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As it says in my bio, my first solid childhood memory is being in a movie theater, squealing with delight while the X-Wings skimmed the trench in 1977’s Star Wars (not bearing its A New Hope secondary title). This was probably the first movie I loved through and through, soon amassing a collection of figurines […]
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Note: This review is being written under the assumption that the reader has seen the original “Star Wars” trilogy and won’t scratch their heads at the words “Wookiee”, “X-Wing” or “Death Star”. There are no Ewoks in the new “Star Wars” film, no Jar Jar Binks, no intergalactic politics. No….. Hayden Christensen. What the “The […]
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DC Filmdom note: Josh Hylton is a dear friend and fellow WAFCA member. Sadly, he’s made the announcement that he’s retiring at the end of this year, so we at DC Filmdom have asked him to do a guest review for us. We have posted this in a fashion similar to his reviews on his […]
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