Oscars 2017: Hell or High Water
There is a fifth character, and it’s West Texas itself: all depressing small towns, poverty, country music, and cowhands.
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Favourite Films of 2016: Part Two
before you ask, I still haven’t seen Son of Saul or The Lobster or Sully or Sing Street or many of the other films that are making everyone’s Top Ten lists.
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The difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing is like the difference between composing and conducting music
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John Williams is Spielberg’s favourite composer, so I have no idea why Spielberg hired Thomas Newman for Bridge of Spies.
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Blunt’s haggard appearance and frumpy demeanour is used as a character point that in a lesser film would be written as “She was an elite FBI agent, a career woman who nabbed the bad guys, but couldn’t keep a man!”
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