Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest is a dark neo-noir drama series with quirky elements and a whole lot of style to cover for its lack of substance. Fortunately, that means all 6 episodes of ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ are gorgeous to behold even when the narrative is frustratingly skimming the borders of interesting areas to explore (and subsequently explain).
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Limbs are snapped, spines are broken, and skulls are crushed… ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ is a gruelling plunge into prison hell, putting its protagonist through a pulverising gauntlet of self-destruction for the sake of his unborn child. And it is fantastic.
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‘Halloween’ has since spawned a plethora of inferior imitators, but John Carpenter’s original classic slasher simply cannot be beaten. A masterclass of suspense building, chilling imagery, and iconic music produced by the legend himself, ‘Halloween’ shows what can be accomplished with a meagre budget when the right person is in full command of their craft.
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Visually breathtaking and gorgeously filmed, ‘Ad Astra’ is a space epic that takes you on a thematically ambitious journey across the stars. It’s about an astronaut who must embark on a daring personal mission to Neptune in order to uncover the truth surrounding his missing father…
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Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, and thematically powerful, Interstellar is Christopher Nolan’s finest achievement. It’s set in a future in which crop blights and dust storms threaten humanity’s survival, and follows a group of astronauts on a daring mission to enter a wormhole in the hopes of finding a new home for mankind…
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On a first watch, ‘The Neon Demon’ never clicked with me on a deeper level; but this time I could see below the surface – where it’s dark and perverse – and understood (and liked) what I saw.
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A slow but compelling western that unfurls with purpose.
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Accomplishing so much with such a small budget, ‘The Head Hunter’ begins as an intimate episode in the life of a lone wanderer who seeks the monster that killed his daughter; a medieval escape for the viewer that evolves into a gory horror chiller by the end.
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