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By the time Furious 7 arrived in cinemas in April 2015, the franchise that began with a modest street-racing film set in Los Angeles had become one of the biggest commercial properties on the planet. What The Fast and the Furious (2001) started as a fairly contained, if enjoyably
Rating: 2.0★
By 2013, the Fast and Furious franchise had become one of Hollywood's more unlikely success stories. What started as a fairly modest, street-racing thriller set in the sun-bleached suburbs of Los Angeles had, over the course of a decade and five films, mutated into a full-
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There's a peculiar moment in film criticism when you realise a national cinema has quietly become essential viewing, not as a curiosity or a trend, but as a genuine rival to anything Hollywood or Europe can produce. Korean cinema hit that moment somewhere around the turn of the
Rating: 3.5★
By 2011, the Fast & Furious franchise was at something of a crossroads. What had begun a decade earlier as a fairly modest, street-racing thriller, loosely inspired by a Vibe magazine article about illegal drag racing in New York, had lurched through several tonal identities across four films, shedding
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The zombie film has always been something of a canvas for social commentary, from George Romero's consumerist malls to the viral-panic anxieties that coursed through the early 2000s wave of fast-infected pictures. By 2025, the genre has been thoroughly charted: audiences know the beats, the archetypes,
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Argentina's recent history carries a weight that its cinema has never quite been able to set down. The period of military dictatorship running from 1976 to 1983, known as the Dirty War, left a country scarred by disappearances, state terror, and a culture of enforced silence that outlasted
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On the 5th of November 1975, a group of forestry workers drove back into Snowflake, Arizona, with a story that the local sheriff and a fair portion of the American public found very hard to swallow. They claimed that their colleague, Travis Walton, had been struck by a beam of
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There is a particular kind of sequel that arrives not out of creative necessity but out of commercial instinct, a follow-up built on the ruins of someone else's success and dressed up to look like continuation. Futureworld (1976) is that kind of film. Michael Crichton's
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular pleasure in revisiting a film that arrived quietly, did modest business, and then spent the following fifty years proving itself right. Westworld, released in 1973, is exactly that kind of film. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, it imagines a sprawling luxury resort called Delos where
Rating: 2.5★
When Disney announced that The Mandalorian would be making the leap from Disney+ to the big screen, the reaction was roughly split between cautious optimism and weary scepticism. The series had been a genuine bright spot in the post-Rise of Skywalker wilderness, winning over audiences with its stripped-back,
Rating: 2.5★
By 1928, Buster Keaton had spent the better part of a decade building one of the most remarkable bodies of work in American cinema. Films like The General and Sherlock Jr. had established him not merely as a popular comedian but as a genuinely inventive filmmaker, someone who understood the
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There is a particular strain of American indie filmmaking that strips everything back, no genre scaffolding, no high-concept hook, just a character wandering through their own life and hoping you find it as interesting as they do. Done badly, it produces films that feel like homework. Done well, it
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