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FAIR PLAY (TIFF 2023) – Review by Karen Gordon

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023 Karen Gordon alden ehrenreich, Chloe Domont, eddie marsan, Fair Play, Phoebe Dynevor, TIFF 2023

Chloe Domont makes a fantastic feature film debut with Fair Play, a taut film that moves from drama to comedy to horror and back to drama as in it’s depiction of gender power dynamics both in relationships, and in the workplace. The film is set in the pressure cooker of a hedge fund company, Anyone who has found themselves on the losing side of a work situation will relate to what’s going on. While the gender issue is central here, the film doesn’t tip into something too simplistic.

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OPPENHEIMER – Review by Rachel West

July 20, 2023September 12, 2023 Rachel West alden ehrenreich, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Benny Safdie, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, David Krumholtz, emily blunt, florence pugh, kenneth Branagh, matt damon, Oppenheimer, robert downey jr

Nolan pieces the film together out of chronological order, sometimes whipping between pre- and post-bomb at a clip, switching from colour to black-and-white. It doesn’t make the narrative hard to follow, but the frequent cutting doesn’t give scenes enough time to breathe, lessening their impact on the audience. The climax of the film is undoubtedly the desert Trinity test of the bomb capabilities. Arriving at around the two-hour mark, what makes this whole sequence of events stand out is that Nolan gives it time to build tension and unfold in front of the audience instead of time-hopping to the next scene.

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COCAINE BEAR – Review by Susan Granger

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 Susan Granger alden ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Cocaine Bear, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jimmy Warden, keri russell, margo martindale, Matthew Rhys, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Ray Liotta

According to the news in 1985, 40 pounds of cocaine was dropped from a bungled aerial drug run into the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia in September; the 175-pound black bear that ate much of it was found dead in December. While the action-comedy caper Cocaine Bear is loosely based on that story, screenwriter Jimmy Warden depicts a much different situation – following a giant, cocked-up, apex predator on a rampage through the woods, hunting for as much blow as possible.

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COCAINE BEAR – Review by Rachel West

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 Rachel West alden ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Cocaine Bear, Isiah Whitlock Jr, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jimmy Warden, keri russell, margo martindale, Matthew Rhys, O’Shea Jackson Jr, Ray Liotta

It doesn’t really matter who the characters are or what their motivations are, because at the end of the day, this movie isn’t about them, it’s about a bear high on cocaine. We don’t need to care about any of the characters and Jimmy Warden’s script doesn’t really give us room to because it doesn’t matter. The high points of the story are all about the drugged-out bear looking for its next fix and the people are just around to inadvertently give it access to more cocaine and become snacks.

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THE YELLOW BIRDS — Review by Jennifer Merin

June 8, 2018August 14, 2018 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments alden ehrenreich, alxandre moors, jennifer aniston, Toni Collette, Tye Sheridan, yellow birds

>Alexandre Moors’ powerful drama shatters notions that going to war makes heroes of ordinary men. Neither Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich), age