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The 10 best films of 2018 (so far)

sudshr47 June 27, 2018

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If there’s one thing we’ll say for 2018, it’s that it’s given us a lot of great films. We’re only halfway through the year and already we’ve seen dozens of things we’ve liked, even loved, across all categories – comedies and tragedies, gazillion-dollar blockbusters and low-key indies. 

Below, here are some of our absolute favorites.

10Leave No Trace 

Writer-director Debra Granik travels even further out to the fringes of society than she did in Winter’s Bone, this time focusing on a traumatized vet father and his teenage daughter, enjoying an idyllic, if unconventional, life out in the wild. But when society catches up to them and forces them to go back on the grid, they’re torn between her desire for a community, and his inability to be part of one. Read more…

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If you liked the ‘Annihilation’ movie, you absolutely NEED to read the book

sudshr47 March 2, 2018

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There is frequently a disclaimer that accompanies Alex Garland’s new movie Annihilation: it’s nothing like the book.

At first glance, based on the trailer, the movie positions itself as a fight against creepy things that go bump in the night. Natalie Portman, playing Lena the biologist, must go into “the shimmer” with a team, to solve a mystery that’ll save her dying husband, who went into Area X previously. And then things get (very, very, very) weird.

In the book, the struggle is much more ethereal — it’s a quest to understand the un-understandable, to fight to hold onto one’s self in the face of extreme uncertainty, a quest to live in a landscape that seems to be fighting back. Read more…

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‘Annihilation’ is an unsettling science fiction fever dream

sudshr47 February 23, 2018

Annihilation Writer-director Alex Garland has said that his adaptation of Annihilation isn’t a straightforward retelling of the book — instead, he said, it’s “true to my subjective response to the novel.” That’s a fair warning: The movie’s details don’t really match the book, which was written by Jeff VanderMeer. What carries over, however, is a sense of… Read More

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