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Chris Connor
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Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 5h
String of LFF reviews inbound. First up is Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out entry. For @techadvisor.com.

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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 5h
String of LFF reviews inbound. First up is Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out entry. For @techadvisor.com.

www.techadvisor.com/article/2935...
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 2d
First LFF interview from this year now live. Had the pleasure of chatting to Rob Mazurek about his debut film score, Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind. Review to follow.

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Exclusive Interview – The Mastermind composer Rob Mazurek
Chris Connor chats with The Mastermind composer Rob Mazurek… Rob Mazurek is a celebrated musician on the jazz circuit as part of Chicago Underground. He has now made his film scoring debut with…
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 6d
Chatting to two absolute icons tomorrow. Brief chat but hoping it's a good one.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 13d
Out today so resharing my OBAA review. Can't wait to go again ASAP.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 20d
Out next Friday, I had an absolute ball with One Battle After Another. Pulls off some insane genre mashups and things PTA hasn't done to date with ease. Full thoughts for @theupcoming.bsky.social.

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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 20d
Out next Friday, I had an absolute ball with One Battle After Another. Pulls off some insane genre mashups and things PTA hasn't done to date with ease. Full thoughts for @theupcoming.bsky.social.

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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 20d
Out next Friday, I had an absolute ball with One Battle After Another. Pulls off some insane genre mashups and things PTA hasn't done to date with ease. Full thoughts for @theupcoming.bsky.social.

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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 22d
Slow Horses is back for another cracking season next week. Spoiler free review for @techadvisor.com

www.techadvisor.com/article/2904...
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 22d
Slow Horses is back for another cracking season next week. Spoiler free review for @techadvisor.com

www.techadvisor.com/article/2904...
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 23d
Seeing One Battle After Another tomorrow. Cannot wait. Oh and The Mastermind, so a good day.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · 24d
Delighted that Andor and Slow Horses both performed well at The Emmys. Still mind boggling that The Pitt hasn't released here yet (hopefully soon). Some catching up to do on a few of the shows.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 30
Tbf a good few are adaptations too. H is For Hawk, The Thing With Feathers and Hamnet.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 30
Funnily enough was planning on rewatching High & Low this weekend ahead of Spike's version.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 30
Not had a chance to play this yet but it's very high on the list.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 30
So many of this year's awards films are about grief. Can we have a year without constant weepies?
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 29
New Spike Lee and PTA's next month.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
Interesting. Yeah I'm hopeful it'll be good and that Mangold's will get off the ground too.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
Yeah and I suppose he knows his way around a blockbuster.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
I mean Free Guy was enjoyable enough and his Stranger Things eps are ok.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
Oh yeah with Amy Adams and Gosling it'll be fun and it's a film about space dogfights.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
Shaun Levy's film.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 28
Massive irony in having one of the best casts for any Star Wars movie but with the worst director. I mean maybe the cast can make it good who knows.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 26
Yeah this is a good point. At least he's still doing stuff like Fargo and Doctor Sleep in amongst other things.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 26
Oh for sure - he's still doing some interesting stuff on TV as well as film but certainly missing the range of directors and genres he was working in.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 26
Saw a post about Big Fish and it reminded me how many great directors Ewan McGregor was working with in the 90s up to the mid 00s. Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Todd Haynes, Bill Forsyth. Outside of his work with GDT and Flanagan in the past decade he hasn't come close.
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Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social · Aug 19
I don't think it's necessarily bad, but that IndieWire 70s list is pretty wild. Feels like they tried to cram in a few too many obscure choices to be different to the usual lists. Anyway, more to go on the to watch list.