Tag: Javier Bardem
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Dune – A Movie Review
Dune never interested me all that much until when, years ago, I heard Denis Villeneuve planned to release his interpretation of the seminal work. As a big fan of Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, I knew Villeneuve would do something very special as he put his unique stamp on the mythology. I immediately set out…
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Mother! – A Movie Review
Though this film came out in September of 2017, I just got around to watching in on Amazon Prime Video. I remember the reviews were mixed at best with most unable to pinpoint the exact nature of the movie. This controversy, along with the fact that Darren Aronofsky wrote and directed it, made it required…
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No Country for Old Men – A Movie Review
It’s a rare occurrence indeed when a film adaptation lives up to its source material, but with No Country for Old Men, Ethan and Joel Coen have done right by Cormac McCarthy. In McCarthy’s novel, he is terse and economic with details. The book moves at an incredibly frantic pace and he shows no mercy…