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2024

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Brandon’s Cult Movie Reviews: ABRAXAS: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE

My latest Canuxsploitation-A-Thon concludes with the infamous 1990 sci-fi/action movie “Abraxas: Guardian Of The Universe”, starring Jesse Ventura! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BrandonTenold Store: https://teespring.com/kaiju-critic Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrandonTenold Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBran… Geekjuice: http://geekjuicemedia.com/ Welcome to my channel, the home of “Brandon’s Cult Movie Reviews”, a show skewering strange films from across cinema history. Covering everything...

23rd August 2024

Rest in Peace: Morgan Spurlock (53)

Here’s the latest from The Guardian Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock, the director of films including Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? died on Thursday aged 53. His family announced in a statement that he “passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends in New York from...

24th May 2024

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 40

Here’s the latest from The Guardian Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom begins with an action sequence that’s almost exactly 20 minutes long, starting with a show-stopping east-meets-west rendition of Anything Goes at a Shanghai nightclub in 1935 and ending in the whitewater rapids at the foot of the...

23rd May 2024

Disney wins boardroom showdown with activist investor

Here’s the latest from The Guardian Disney saw off a boardroom coup on Wednesday, defeating a bid by one of corporate America’s most renowned activist investors to overhaul its management. The entertainment giant announced at its annual shareholder meeting that it had secured enough votes by a “substantial margin” to defeat...

3rd April 2024

Rest In Peace: Louis Gossett Jr

Here’s the latest from The Guardian Louis Gossett Jr, the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87. “It is with our heartfelt regret to confirm our beloved father passed away...

29th March 2024

Rest In Peace: M Emmet Walsh (88)

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian M Emmet Walsh, the character actor who appeared in more than 220 film and television roles including Blade Runner, Knives Out and the Coen brothers’ films Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, has died aged 88. Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed to the...

21st March 2024

No One Opened Doors for Me

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Born Noomi Norén, the 44-year-old Swedish actor Noomi Rapace left home aged 15 to study acting in Stockholm. She broke through globally in 2009 when she starred in the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She has...

3rd March 2024

Monolith | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian It takes some guts for any sci-fi film – especially a no-budget one – to pick that title, and to include some eerie wisps of Ligeti-like sounds to get the cosmic hairs rising on the back of your neck. When Monolith isn’t...

20th February 2024

1946 … 1999 …1971 … 2024? What was the best ever year for film?

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian In three weeks’ time, the credits will roll on the best cinema season in recent memory. Ten films are up for the best picture Oscar on 10 March and not a dud among them. That is unusual. Usually you will find an...

16th February 2024

Oppenheimer beats Barbie as BAFTA nominations announced

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Christopher Nolan, arguably the most commercially and critically successful British director in decades, looks set to secure his first Bafta victory next month, after his latest film, Oppenheimer, was nominated in 13 categories. The film is up for best film, director, adapted...

18th January 2024

2023

Rest In Peace: Shirley Anne Field (87)

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Shirley Anne Field, who has died aged 87, was likened to Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve and even “a sort of red-haired Brigitte Bardot”. There was no question she could stop traffic. “Lorries used to thunder to a halt, and I would wonder...

12th December 2023

Serpico at 50

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian “Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive – an honest cop.” That was the tagline for the rabble-rousing cop docudrama Serpico when it premiered 50 years and it’s astonishing, in retrospect, that Paramount Pictures slapped it on...

5th December 2023

Rest In Peace: Joss Ackland (95)

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian British actor Joss Ackland has died at the age of 95, his family have said in a statement. He appeared in films such as White Mischief, on TV playing CS Lewis in Shadowlands and in many stage productions including as Juan Perón...

20th November 2023

Fingernails | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian A tender love story is placed atop a contrived and quirkified sci-fi premise in this new movie from Greek director Christos Nikou, whose debut feature, the metaphysical mystery Apples, was much admired. However the speculative conceit of Fingernails makes the film play...

2nd November 2023

Scrapper | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Everything that 12-year-old Georgie (impressive newcomer Lola Campbell) knows about family, she learned from her single mother. And that includes the knack of filling the space left by an absent parent. While her mother was alive, she was both mum and dad...

26th August 2023

L’immensità | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian There’s a simmering undercurrent of violence in 1970s Rome, a sense that the city is about to tear itself apart. In the rush to develop, deprived areas are torn down to make way for shiny new apartments and a rising tide of...

13th August 2023

American Graffiti at 50

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Ninety-nine times out of 100, the postscripts that get tucked in before the closing credits, telling us where the characters’ lives have gone from there, are totally unnecessary, especially in a fictional story where their fates are better left to the viewer’s...

11th August 2023

Face Down | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian In December 1973, two members of the Provisional IRA arrived at a house in West Belfast and told the man who came to the door that their car had crashed into his. He left the house in his slippers to see what had happened,...

10th August 2023

Rest In Peace: Josephine Chaplin (74)

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Josephine Chaplin, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, died on 13 July in Paris, her family said on Friday. The actor, who starred in films including Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s The Canterbury Tales, was 74. Josephine Chaplin was...

21st July 2023

Toying with itself: Barbie Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian A little before halfway through the Barbie movie, Stereotypical Barbie, the classic blonde doll as realized by ultra Hollywood blonde Margot Robbie, is struck by an uncomfortable feeling. Having left the cracked utopia of Barbieland, she’s rollerblading on the boardwalk at Venice...

19th July 2023

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian In this critically agile film, Hitchcock supposedly narrates from beyond the grave, using movie clips to reveal techniques and meanings in his work Only a cinephile as passionate as Mark Cousins could have got away with this film, in all its hilarious...

18th July 2023

Rest In Peace: Derek Malcolm (91)

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Derek Malcolm, who served as the Guardian’s film critic for more than 25 years, has died at the age of 91. His death on Saturday was confirmed by his wife, the historian Sarah Gristwood. He died at home in Deal, of heart...

16th July 2023

Medusa | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian With its squishy synth soundtrack, candy-coloured teen environs and role-playing girl-gang violence, this second feature from Brazilian writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira feels like a time-warped precursor to Heathers, Clueless and The Neon Demon. It’s a satirical nightmare inspired by the giallo...

16th July 2023

A Kind of Kidnapping | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian This pitch-black, low-budget British comedy entertainingly revolves around a sleazy, self-serving MP who may or may not bear a passing resemblance to a certain recent prime minister. The MP’s name is Richard “Hardline” Hardy (Patrick Baladi), a politician so morally bankrupt that...

11th July 2023

I’m stubborn and lacking in confidence – a terrible combination’

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian If Peaky Blinders made the Irish actor a household name, will Christopher Nolan’s nuclear blockbuster send him into the stratosphere? He talks about extreme weight loss, hating school and why his next character won’t be a smoker. Cillian Murphy is struggling with...

8th July 2023

Hot Wheels Movie ‘emotional, grounded and gritty’. Why?

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Keen to chuck its entire back catalogue at the big screen, Mattel has JJ Abrams working on a deadly earnest drama inspired by tiny cars. Can someone find the brakes? JJ Abrams told the New Yorker: “For a long time, we were...

7th July 2023

Joy Ride | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian A slickly likable Asian-American comedy dwells on family and identity. Laughs, high energy levels and some outrageous set pieces make this examination of the complex relationship with distant family a fun journey of self-discovery Writer-producer Adele Lim, who worked on the script...

6th July 2023

Smoking Causes Coughing | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian The cigarette-superhero comedy is refreshingly immature. Quentin Dupieux’s chaotic, bizarre film about a monster-fighting squad controlled by a rat named Didier will greatly annoy some, which is one of its strengths. Only a pedant and a bore would complain that the last...

5th July 2023

Door Mouse | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian A strip club thriller that’s Raymond Chandler by way of Tank Girl. Played by Hayley Law, Mouse is a graphic artist and burlesque performer who takes a predictable but well-drawn route through the mean streets Part noir thriller and part punky comic-book...

5th July 2023

Feathers | Review

Here’s the latest from Film | The Guardian Ambiguous, Kafkaesque and with a deadpan wit, Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s debut feature explores a woman’s place in a man’s world Egyptian film-maker Omar El Zohairy is a brilliant emerging talent with an impressive professional pedigree; he is a former assistant...

3rd July 2023