No Second Draft – ramblings about film and TV
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on: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Synopsis: In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) receives an invitation to tech billionaire Miles Bron’s (Edward Norton) private island for a murder mystery game. Craving excitement and adventure, Blanc obliges, only to realise upon his arrival that Bron never invited him to begin with. Sensing danger afoot, Blanc…
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on: The Menu
Synopsis: Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) and Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) are a young couple who have managed to score an exclusive seating at Hawthorne, an exclusive restaurant located on a private island, run by eccentric head chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). Once at Hawthorne, Margot begins to realise that all is not as it seems. Firstly, the…
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on: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Synopsis: After the tragic death of King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the royal family of technologically advanced African nation Wakanda must pick up the pieces and continue defending themselves from rapacious outsiders keen on exploiting their most important natural resource – the magical metal known as vibranium. In this vulnerable state, a new enemy emerges from…
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on: Blonde
Synopsis: The life and times of Norma Jeane Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas). Spoilers for Blonde abound. 1. Let’s get this out of the way. Blonde, like its source material (the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name published in 2000) has next to no basis in reality. It takes…
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on: Jean-Luc Godard
I was 19 when I first saw À bout de souffle (1960). I would say it was the right age, but in truth, any age is the right age. By this point, I was a burgeoning cinema nerd, and my film diet largely consisted of 90s/00s auteurs (Fincher, Aronofsky, PTA, Tarantino, Nolan, etc.) and New…
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on: Nope
Synopsis: After the mysterious death of patriarch Otis Sr. (Keith David), ownership of the Haywood Hollywood Horses ranch, which trains horses for film and TV productions, passes to his children Otis ‘OJ’ Junior (Daniel Kaluuya) and ne’er-do-well hustler Emerald (Keke Palmer). With a mountain of debt and studios moving away from using live animals, OJ…
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on: Decision to Leave
Synopsis: When the body of an amateur climber is found at the foot of one of his favourite climbing spots, the case seems at first to be cut-and-dried for insomniac lead detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), an ace investigator with a stable but chilly ‘weekend marriage’. However, as he looks deeper into the case and into…
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on: Fresh
Synopsis: After multiple disastrous encounters and interactions with creepy men, Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is just about ready to give up on the dating scene altogether. That is, until she experiences a meet-cute with suave, charming doctor Steve (Sebastian Stan) in the produce aisle of a supermarket. Sparks fly, and before long, a real connection is…
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on: The Northman
Synopsis: In 895 AD, after his traitorous uncle Fjölnir (Claes Bang) kills his royal father King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke) to usurps both his throne and his queen (Nicole Kidman), Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) flees into hiding, returning years later to exact a bloody revenge, aided by enslaved witch Olga of the Birch Forest (Anya Taylor-Joy).…
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on: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Synopsis: When dimension-hopping teenager America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) inadvertently lands in Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) world pursued by demons, Strange and newly minted Sorcerer Supreme Wong (Benedict Wong) seek the help of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) to return Chavez back to her own dimension. However, Wanda has far darker plans for Chavez’s power, and in…
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