Category: film reviews

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Lolita (1997)

Adrian Lyne’s Lolita is an engaging but unsettling watch that doesn’t bother limiting itself in its interesting adaptation of Nabokov’s novel

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Guillotines, The (2012)

Set during the Manchurian rule of the Qing Dynasty, the Empire had set up an assassination squad known as the Guillotines set to kill anyone who dared to oppose the Emperor.

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Hocus Pocus (1993)

Disney’s summer blockluster is turning 20 years old this year! In 1693, the three Sanderson sisters were hanged, promising they would return when a virgin lights the black flame candle. In the 90s, a virgin did.

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Flight (2012)

Flight serves as a great return to live-action filmmaking for Robert Zemeckis and it is recommendable thanks to Denzel Washington’s portrayal of a functioning alcoholic.

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Farewell, My Queen

Based on the novel by French historian Chantal Thomas, Les Adieux à la Reine tells the fictionalized relationship that Queen Marie Antoinette had with her reader during the final days before the French Revolution in 1789.

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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days chronicles the last days of Scholl’s life after she’s caught distributing ‘anti-government’ printouts during the not-so-final days of Nazi Germany.