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5/5
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T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Words speak louder than actions
Posted Aug 01, 2023
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3.5/5
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Mickey Hardaway
(2023)
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James Wegg
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Art is a waste of time
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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4/5
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The Last of the Winthrops
(2022)
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James Wegg
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You can’t choose your relatives
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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4.5/5
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Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
(2023)
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James Wegg
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We need the tonic of wildness
Posted Jul 12, 2023
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4.5/5
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Saint-Narcisse
(2021)
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James Wegg
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Imagine being an orphan, only to discover your mother is still alive.
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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4.5/5
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Kubrick by Kubrick
(2020)
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James Wegg
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Is man fundamentally good?
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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4.5/5
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Plastic Earth
(2023)
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James Wegg
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Some things are designed to last forever: music, art, literature—hopefully—relationships. But garbage—notably plastics, worse still: microplastics—threaten to end the world as we think we enjoy it, one water bottle at a time.
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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3.5/5
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Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Dreams, memories and producers
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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4.5/5
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Altered Perceptions
(2023)
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James Wegg
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If only it wasn’t fiction
Posted Apr 14, 2023
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4.5/5
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Stranger at the Gate
(2022)
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James Wegg
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As positive as this production is, its heartwarming message of real-life hope will be lost on those who know (and profit) from being better than the rest of us.
Posted Mar 21, 2023
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4/5
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
(2022)
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James Wegg
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As Ruth Ben Ghiat recently said, “Making sure you have immunity, while those who have done your dirty work go to jail, is an essential strongman skill”.
Posted Mar 21, 2023
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4.5/5
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The Elephant Whisperers
(2022)
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James Wegg
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As positive as this production is, its heartwarming message of real-life hope will be lost on those who know (and profit) from being better than the rest of us.
Posted Mar 21, 2023
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3/5
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Laundry, taxes and life
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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5/5
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Navalny
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Imagine what a kinder, gentler world we would have today if it was Vladimir Putin languishing in jail rather than Alexei Navalny.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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4.5/5
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A House Made of Splinters
(2022)
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James Wegg
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One can only wish that this captivating documentary was actually fiction; thanks to Putin and his cronies it is an awful truth.
Posted Mar 01, 2023
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4/5
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Nanny
(2022)
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James Wegg
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To add cinematic spice, there are copious amounts of magic and visions. Viewers are left to sort out the truth from the deliberate alchemy.
Posted Jan 30, 2023
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4/5
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Nope
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Don't look up
Posted Jan 30, 2023
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4/5
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Body Parts
(2022)
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James Wegg
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My body no longer belongs to me.
Posted Jan 30, 2023
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4/5
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The Kings of the World
(2022)
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James Wegg
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It’s a highway-filled, jungle-rich road movie that deftly explores the good, bad and ugly of strangers met on the trek, along with evolving relationships amongst the travellers.
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4/5
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Thirteen Lives
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Imagine exploring a cave (Tham Luang) in the beautiful mountains of Thailand’s Chiang Rai region, delving into its depths, only to be denied an exit due to the sudden, ceiling-high water eruption, then waiting weeks before any hope of rescue.
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4/5
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Pinocchio
(2022)
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James Wegg
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No strings attached
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4.5/5
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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James Wegg
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What is a soldier without war?
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4.5/5
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Argentina, 1985
(2022)
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James Wegg
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In our present-day era of dictatorial rule in Russia causing horrendous, senseless grief in Ukraine, it is instructive to see a re-enactment of the 1985 Trial of the Juntas in Argentina.
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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3.5/5
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Blanquita
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Most truth will never come out
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4/5
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Holy Spider
(2022)
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James Wegg
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And justice for one
Posted Jan 18, 2023
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4.5/5
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You Won't Be Alone
(2022)
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James Wegg
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At the, er, heart of it all is Wolf-Eateress, Maria (Anamaria Marinca is appropriately caustic, brutal and unrepenting), whose previous burning at the stake—ironically completing the transformation to the other side—has left her skin burned to the core.
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4/5
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Emily the Criminal
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Well, what would you do?
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4/5
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Decision to Leave
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Murder, perhaps suicide, upscale sushi, failing/failed relationships, love at first arrest, and crow’s feathers are all important elements in Chan-wook’s story of a weekend marriage detective’s quest to put the nasty amongst us away for good.
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4.5/5
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EO
(2022)
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James Wegg
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After a relatively brief life in the circus, what’s a show donkey to do?
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4.5/5
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No Bears
(2022)
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James Wegg
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The folly of unfounded traditions
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4/5
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Women Talking
(2022)
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James Wegg
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What’s a girl to do?
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4/5
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Crimes of the Future
(2022)
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James Wegg
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“Surgery is the new sex”
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4.5/5
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Take Out
(2004)
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James Wegg
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A very dark look at systemic misery
Posted Jan 17, 2023
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4.5/5
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My Imaginary Country
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Third time lucky? We can only hope.
Posted Nov 05, 2022
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3.5/5
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The Mayor of Rione Sanità
(2019)
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James Wegg
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If you want to win the case, the lawyer must never know the truth.
Posted Oct 27, 2022
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4
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Alpha: The Right to Kill
(2018)
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James Wegg
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Where are the good guys?
Posted Oct 27, 2022
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4.5/5
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Bent
(1997)
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James Wegg
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How extraordinarily chilling to see playwright Martin Sherman’s masterpiece on the screen a quarter century after its release, even as Putin’s “fake war” tries to rid Ukraine of its Nazi population.
Posted Oct 27, 2022
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4/5
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Beloved
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Fine performances from Iveel Mashbat and Jana Milley as the doomed lovers who try and fail to resurrect their initial passion.
Posted Oct 18, 2022
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4.5/5
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I Didn't See You There
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Try walking a mile in my chair
Posted Sep 02, 2022
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4/5
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Sniper: The White Raven
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Best to be neither seen nor heard
Posted Sep 02, 2022
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4/5
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From the Hood to the Holler
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Justice is not a destination, it’s a journey.
Posted Sep 02, 2022
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3.5/5
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Moving in 2008
(2021)
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James Wegg
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American Nightmare
Posted Jun 13, 2022
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4/5
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Potato Dreams of America
(2021)
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James Wegg
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As the younger Vasili, Hersh Powers charms the camera with his apparent naiveté and boyish good looks; once in America, Tyler Bocock readily exudes his inner gay with panache.
Posted Jun 13, 2022
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4.5/5
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Guantanamo Diary Revisited
(2022)
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James Wegg
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Nothing new under the sun of torture
Posted Jun 13, 2022
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5/5
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Neptune Frost
(2021)
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James Wegg
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Every once in a while, a film comes along that more needs seeing than reviewing.
Posted Jun 13, 2022
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4/5
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The Artist
(2011)
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James Wegg
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Words defeat me
Posted May 08, 2022
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3/5
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Ben-Hur
(1959)
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James Wegg
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Death by spectacle
Posted May 08, 2022
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2/5
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Braveheart
(1995)
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James Wegg
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"It’s our wits that make us men."
Posted May 08, 2022
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3.5/5
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Forrest Gump
(1994)
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James Wegg
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Seeing this 1994 winner of Best Picture in 2022, immediately reminded me of how far cinema has come in portraying the “different amongst us”.
Posted May 08, 2022
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4/5
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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James Wegg
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"They had it coming."
Posted May 08, 2022
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