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Film review: Black Mass **
By Preston Wilder The problem with Black Mass is knowing how seriously to take it. Almost the first thing we see is a thug named Teddy Weeks making crystal-clear that “I’m not a rat” before spilling...
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Travelling far and wide: Report from the Thessaloniki Festival
Preston Wilder from the Thessaloniki Film Festival “Greenaway,” said the girl. “You what?” said her boyfriend – or it may have been “Go on”, they were walking some way behind me. (This was all in...
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Film Review: Tale of Tales**
By Preston Wilder There’s a bit towards the end of Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s lavish mediaeval fantasy, that spells out a possible m.o. behind this portmanteau movie. A queen (Salma Hayek) asks a...
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Film review: Bridge of Spies ***
By Preston Wilder The Cold War is literally cold for New York lawyer Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks). Walking through a wintry East Berlin on his way to the Soviet embassy, Jim gets mugged by a rather polite...
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Film reviews: High on society
10,000 KM **** DIRECTED BY Carlos Marques-Marcet STARRING Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer Spain 2014 99 mins. In Spanish, with Greek subtitles. THE TRIBE ** DIRECTED BY Miroslav...
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Film review: In the Heart of the Sea **
By Preston Wilder Is it a man’s world? Not exactly, for all the talk of gender imbalance; not in real life, not in movies either. There’s only a couple of genres where women are invisible – or, more...
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Film review: Carol ****
By Preston Wilder Cate Blanchett’s face is a clear pool of water, with emotions rippling across it. There’s something limpid about Blanchett in Carol, and very elegant. “Forgive me, shopping makes me...
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Film review: By the Sea **
By Preston Wilder There’s an obstacle to enjoying Angelina Jolie films – I mean the ones she directs, not the ones she stars in – and that obstacle is Angelina Jolie. In last year’s Unbroken, the...
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Film reviews: The Good Dinosaur *** and Enas Allos Kosmos *
By Preston Wilder This is a public service announcement. The Good Dinosaur may be rated ‘K’, or ‘Suitable for All’ (mostly because we have no ‘PG’ rating in Cyprus), but parents need to know that it...
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Film review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ***
By Preston Wilder “The golden warbler (petechia group; 17 subspecies) is generally resident in the mangrove swamps of the West Indies. Local seasonal migrations may occur. On the Cayman Islands for...
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Film review: Joy ***
By Preston Wilder What an odd, misshapen movie Joy is. It’s been billed as a family saga, the kind that spans generations, and also a biopic of Joy Mangano (played by Jennifer Lawrence), an inventor...
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Film review: Point Break **
By Preston Wilder Let’s be clear: Point Break isn’t much of a remake of Point Break, the 1991 action flick that became, unexpectedly, a cult movie. The basic contours are the same, with an FBI agent...
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Film review: Steve Jobs ****
By Preston Wilder For a guy who sold gadgets, Steve Jobs has been getting a lot of screen time (big screen, not computer screen) since his death in 2011 – though he wouldn’t necessarily be happy with...
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Film review: The Hateful Eight ***
By Preston Wilder Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) holds up a warning hand: “Let’s slow it down,” he suggests. “Let’s slow it waaaay down”. Quentin Tarantino agrees, The Hateful Eight marking a new...
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Film review: The Big Short ****
By Preston Wilder Sub-prime loans. Treasury bonds. Utility stocks. Collateralised debt obligations. Financial jargon is puzzling, in fact it’s deliberately puzzling says someone in The Big Short – a...
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Film review: Creed ****
By Preston Wilder News arrives that Ryan Coogler has signed with Marvel to direct the superhero movie Black Panther, due for release in 2018. This is good news for Mr. Coogler but bad news for the rest...
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Film review: The Danish Girl **
By Preston Wilder Pity The Danish Girl, a case of pleasing none of the people, none of the time. This well-meaning drama (at least, I assume it’s well-meaning) tells the tale of Einar Wegener, a...
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Film review: The Boy ***
By Preston Wilder A girl, a spooky house, a doll: IT’S ALIVE!!! Actually, that’s what you don’t know – and what I’m not allowed to divulge – though in fact every creepy-doll movie should be titled...
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Film review: Daddy’s Home ***
By Preston Wilder Will Ferrell has a face you want to punch, with its gormless good cheer and its frizzy curly halo and its features all bunched together – and Will Ferrell gets abused pretty much...
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Film review: Fifty Shades of Black (zero stars), How to Be Single**
By Preston Wilder There are several reasons to review Fifty Shades of Black and How to Be Single together. Both are (allegedly) comedies. One stars Marlon Wayans, the other co-stars Damon Wayans Jr....
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