Barbenheimer, zombies and the power of uncontrollable marketing
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TOP Doctor Who stories for Hallowe’en!
It’s that time of year again – when the nights draw in, the leaves fall, and pumpkins are mercilessly scooped out and carved up for the entertainment of children young and old. It’s also the time of year I start making a mental list of all the seasonally-appropriate Doctor Who episodes to recommend to anyone who’ll listen. Doctor Who has never …
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Raiders of the Lost Shark
There is a great poster for this ‘film’, and it’s a great title. But it lives and dies on the promise of those two things, and completely wastes them.
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Antebellum
I can see why the subject matter might put people off. We’ve got yet another race-based, popcorn dissection of social ills, and the potentially frivolous treatment of a period of history that still stings like a motherfucker for Black Americans and whites alike.
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Peninsula
Is this better than Train to Busan? No, probably not, but it’s close in its own way. It’s better than Seoul Station, which was OK, but Peninsula is a must-see.
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The Limehouse Golem
In a nutshell: not just a bunch of stuff you’ve seen before in every other dark Victorian London-set mystery tale.
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One Million Years B.C.
The joke about this film was always that, historically, humans meeting dinosaurs and Raquel Welch’s salon-perfect hairdo are both naively inaccurate. Which kind of misses the point. This is a fantasy romp.
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Tusk
There are downsides to Tusk for sure. But whatever. It’s a fairly tight ride with little flab. And the fate of our would-be walrus protagonist is, against all odds, surprisingly sad.
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