Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Last Duel, takes the Rashomon approach in telling its story. It is a movie that revolves around one event but from three different perspectives. The event at hand is the rape of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer) at the hands of Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a friend of Marguerite’s husband, Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), who challenges Jacques to a duel once he finds out what…
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The 2021 Chicago International Film Festival kicks off this week and it is a film festival that I love with all my heart. This was the first festival that I attended back in 2008 and it is one I have attended every year since. This is a truly great festival that does not get the love and attention of some higher-profile festivals, but one that deserves to be mentioned as one of the best film…
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” So utters Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III. Michael says this line after he finds out that he has been double-crossed and is forced back into the mafia lifestyle he has tried to leave after a lifetime of crime that has filled him with regret. This quote kept running through my head while I was…
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A movie is best experienced knowing as little as possible about the movie you are about to see. Knowing the cast and knowing the director is good to know, as it could give you an idea of the kind of tone the movie will have. Knowing the genre is also good as if you could be looking for a comedy and end up seeing a horror movie. But beyond that, the less you…
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Though advertised as the origin story of the legendary Spider-Man villain, 2018’s Venom was more of a buddy comedy rather than a superhero or supervillain origin story. The film focused on Eddie Brock, played by Tom Hardy, a reporter who becomes bonded with an alien symbiote that has crash landed on Earth named Venom. In typical superhero origin stories, the movie would have been about Eddie learning how to use the symbiote as…
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