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country, but not before pulling one last short change scam on the airport ticket window, which is cliched territory, 100%. Despite the high rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing, as well as the tremendous effort put in by the two lead actors...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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attention to detail in both her characterization of Clara as well as the capture of the rural period and atmosphere, despite the film’s somewhat languid pace. Torrico moves the film towards the expected ending with a conflict showdown between mother and...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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the fabric of the family just as the nation itself stands on edge during an alarming and challenging time of uncertainty. Despite the high aims of the movie tackling political issues, the way in which the approach is taken feels manipulative and cheesy....
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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as does the boar. Black runs for his life, screaming, “What the hell!” spitting out the dead squirrel from his mouth. Despite this silliness, the setup is actually so stupid it is just plain laugh-out-loud hilarious. This one works enough to forgive the...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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is bestowed upon him before a lady makes her appearance, accusing the dead man of having nuked more cocks than anyone else. Despite this fast beginning, the rest of the film is a surprising slow burn as his son discovers secrets about his after and...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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attack). A Brooklyn, New York resident whom the director describes as someone the film portrays as not personally racist, despite his involvement with far-right activism and debates within that milieu. The third is the most interesting. Thad Cisneros is...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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returns after a hiatus playing the titular Frankenstein (called Franky in the movie), and he is still as attractive as ever despite his makeup to look like a monster. Penelope Cruz is largely wasted as an ambitious detective supporting her boss, played...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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Pike, and most of all veteran Fiona Shaw playing Felicity, the receptionist promoted to CEO in the new women’s world. Despite the film’s country of origin being listed as the United States, this is a British film at heart. Both leading figures, Pike and...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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not easy for a man who fled rural life for the city in order to live his homosexuality more freely. It doesn't take long, despite the tragic circumstances, for everyone to start asking intrusive questions and wondering whether Anand is thinking about...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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growth and birth defects. The country's environmental ministry declared the area an environmental disaster zone in 1996. Despite this, a private company acquired the plant in 1998 and restarted its operations. In 2004, Russian Copper Company, a private...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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and mental health to civic engagement and youth empowerment, these women are driving meaningful change across the city. Despite operating on smaller budgets, their organizations reach large numbers of people, reflect greater diversity, and produce...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Business and Innovation
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and turns to the underground resistance - the courage of a mole cricket becomes the spark that tears apart the dark night. Despite the film’s historical setting, the setting and story are an excuse for the following in the lineage of nonstop combat...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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craftsmanship and surgery, suggesting that both involve repairing fragile bodies and lives. The film moves quite slowly despite the many, many incidents happening in the story, COUTURE premiered in Toronto last year at the Toronto International Film...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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of a Serial Killer. The film focuses on Wuornos' declining mental state and the questionable judgment to execute her despite her being of unsound mind. Now streaming on Netflix, the documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, directed by Emily...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, Kevin's mother (Tilda Swinton) struggles to love her strange child (played as a grown-up, Ezra Miller) despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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revolutionary techniques for viticulture and winemaking based on precise rules. This rom-com clearly lacks any imagination, despite being a French festive setting, but also lacks any bubbly humour or any authentic drama. The Chemistry between the two...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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indulgence. Take the film’s last line: There is no word that is opposite to trauma, but the word hope comes a close second. Despite the horrendous reviews the film has received so far, it is actually not that bad! ELLA MCCAY opens in theatres December...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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and a few positives. In terms of pace and tension, director Bekmambetov delivers an absorbing edge-of-the-seat thriller, despite the credibility factor. His incorporation of layered, superimposed images, showing closed-captioned text and dates across...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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did engage publicly and persistently in seeking accountability after losing loved ones. But it should be noted that despite political shifts and years of campaigning, justice and full recovery of the miners’ bodies and the mine’s evidence have remained...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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him he was seen by a co-worker taking down the posters. It is good to see an Israeli film taking the side of a Palestinian. Despite the timely premise, the short is quite simply made. A FRIEND OF DOROTHY (UK 2025) **** Directed by Lee Knight...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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