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Tron: Ares is the worst film of the year and a new low for Disney – review

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 3d

TRON: ARES has this year’s best score playing over this year’s worst film

The music’s great, but this Jared Leto vehicle is otherwise an ethically dubious, horribly written nadir in franchise slop

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 5d

THE LOST BUS: there’s a new paul greengrass, so time for the conversation about exploitation & entertainment again

The Lost Bus is a real-life horror story warped by Hollywood – review

This depiction of the 2018 Camp Fire disaster in Butte County, northern California, wants to be a realistic docu-drama, but it gives its star far too much fictional drama than is needed

The Lost Bus is a real-life horror story warped by Hollywood – review

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 5d

THE LOST BUS: there’s a new paul greengrass, so time for the conversation about exploitation & entertainment again

This depiction of the 2018 Camp Fire disaster in Butte County, northern California, wants to be a realistic docu-drama, but it gives its star far too much fictional drama than is needed

With Urchin, Harris Dickinson announces himself as a gutsy new filmmaker – review

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 6d

harris dickinson’s directorial debut URCHIN is exactly the kind of gutsy, thoughtful, studied work you want from an actor stepping behind the lens

The British actor hasn’t wasted his cinematic education, and there are shades of many of his past collaborators – including Steve McQueen and Joanna Hogg – in this striking social-realist drama

With Urchin, Harris Dickinson announces himself as a gutsy new filmmaker – review

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 6d

harris dickinson’s directorial debut URCHIN is exactly the kind of gutsy, thoughtful, studied work you want from an actor stepping behind the lens

The British actor hasn’t wasted his cinematic education, and there are shades of many of his past collaborators – including Steve McQueen and Joanna Hogg – in this striking social-realist drama

House of Guinness blends sex and desire with Ireland’s most famous export

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 8d

kicked off frankenstein autumn with a classic, the premiere of the new 4K restoration of THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. (a) peter cushing’s eyes have never looked so blue and (b) i will be curious to see how this & the whale version interact in del toro’s film

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 10d

a slam dunk performance from anthony boyle, but at what cost

Flicks @flicks.bsky.social · 11d

#HouseOfGuinness, freshly dispatched on Netflix, is about as typical a (Peaky Blinders creator) Steven Knight project as you’ll find, says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "It’s fun and it’s sloppy in equal measure."

New show from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight joins the current trend of bodice rippers soundtracked by contemporary music.

House of Guinness blends sex and desire with Ireland’s most famous export

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 10d

a slam dunk performance from anthony boyle, but at what cost

Flicks @flicks.bsky.social · 11d

#HouseOfGuinness, freshly dispatched on Netflix, is about as typical a (Peaky Blinders creator) Steven Knight project as you’ll find, says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "It’s fun and it’s sloppy in equal measure."

New show from Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight joins the current trend of bodice rippers soundtracked by contemporary music.

28 Years Later, Event Horizon Finally Returns With An Overdue Prequel

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Christian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · 11d

Ahead of Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2 release from @idwpublishing.com next week , myself and @tristansbones.bsky.social spoke to @screenrant.bsky.social about bringing the movie prequel to life.

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Screen Rant speaks to the team behind Event Horizon's new prequel, giving fans of the cult classic the story they didn't realize they needed most.

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 11d

BUGONIA: gonna call this yorgos lanthimos’s prometheus for my own amusement. an immaculately balanced tragi-comedy, like tonal witchcraft

& look at how if you cast an autistic actor as your autistic character (aidan delbis), you get a moving & nuanced performance instead of some patronising farce

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 12d

my piece on guillermo del toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is in the current issue of picturehouse recommends - hopefully the first of several!!

the cover of picturehouse recommends magazine - it features the poster for bugonia, in which emma stone’s face is projected on a blood-red stain that drips down to a hooded figure in a beekeeper suit

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 12d

emma thompson has her TAKEN moment in DEAD OF WINTER. a little contrived but i did enjoy her going to toe-to-toe with judy greer

Emma Thompson turns action hero in Dead of Winter – and it works: review

A freezing cold Thompson embraces her inner Liam Neeson as she attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl, in this refreshing little thriller

Emma Thompson turns action hero in Dead of Winter – and it works: review

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 12d

emma thompson has her TAKEN moment in DEAD OF WINTER. a little contrived but i did enjoy her going to toe-to-toe with judy greer

A freezing cold Thompson embraces her inner Liam Neeson as she attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl, in this refreshing little thriller

Gen V hasn’t lost its teeth but, like The Boys, is feeling less “anti-comic book”

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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 13d

enjoyed season two of GEN V, but it’s interesting how indistinguishable it feels now from the things it’s supposedly satirising

Flicks @flicks.bsky.social · 18d

As much as #TheBoys, and college-set spin-off #GenV, present themselves as the barbed alternative to modern comic book monotheism, they’ve been around long enough that we’ve (gasp!) started to care, says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - beyond what they can just serve to us as a punchline.

The jokes here feel more accessory to the main plot than the main plot itself. But fear not – that doesn’t mean a total absence of dicks and sexual kinks.

Gen V hasn’t lost its teeth but, like The Boys, is feeling less “anti-comic book”

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 13d

enjoyed season two of GEN V, but it’s interesting how indistinguishable it feels now from the things it’s supposedly satirising

Flicks @flicks.bsky.social · 18d

As much as #TheBoys, and college-set spin-off #GenV, present themselves as the barbed alternative to modern comic book monotheism, they’ve been around long enough that we’ve (gasp!) started to care, says @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - beyond what they can just serve to us as a punchline.

The jokes here feel more accessory to the main plot than the main plot itself. But fear not – that doesn’t mean a total absence of dicks and sexual kinks.

Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 15d

i knew james gunn had something good up his sleeve for vigilante, i was right to trust him