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Beauty standards are a palpable topic for exploring, particularly when they're about women in image-obsessed Hollywood. This is the setting for Coralie Fargeat's The Substance, a satirical and grotesque body horror that serves up its own version of warped feminism. The film focuses on Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), an ageing TV fitness instructor who was revered… Continue reading Film Review | The Substance
Dev Patel's directorial debut, Monkey Man, is a brutal, bloody and unrelenting revenge thriller from the streets of India. The film follows our protagonist, played by Patel and unnamed other than in the film's title, who takes part in violent and seedy underground fights for cash. He is representative of India's underclass, with a willingness to… Continue reading Film Review | Monkey Man
Dune is a mess. It's a grandiose, Hollywood-backed epic with auteur David Lynch at the helm, so the stage should have been set for science fiction greatness. But therein lies the problem. Lynch had come off making the surrealist, art-house portraits Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, and ostensibly had his mind set on something greater. Frank Herbert's 1965 science… Continue reading Film Review | Dune [1984]
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