Posts Tagged Jennifer Jason Leigh

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January 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Marriage Story: Film

Marriage Story Director: Noah Baumbach Heyday Films / Netflix Marriage Story is, to date, Noah Baumbach’s masterpiece. It’s a fairly immaculate filmography so far, but where sometimes the privilege of the characters has maybe alienated members of the audience, (whether The Squid and The Whale’s intellectual superiority or the world of wealth in The Meyerowitz […]

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December 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Patrick Melrose: DVD

Patrick Melrose Director: Edward Berger Madman This five-episode mini-series takes Edward St. Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical novels and devotes a single episode to each; the result, in truly mesmeric fashion, is one of the great catch-all TV shows in recent years. A present-day instant-classic. It’ simply a perfect, heart-breaking, hilarious, grizzly-grim depiction of addiction and the trauma […]

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February 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight [OST]

Various Artists: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight [OST] Verve Even when I have been less enamoured with the finished film product I’ve still been impressed with the soundtracks from Quentin Tarantino films – as it happens I rather loved The Hateful Eight – but waited to hear its soundtrack for the first time up on […]

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January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Hateful Eight: Film

The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino FilmColony/The Weinstein Company Where the last two Tarantino films have left me cold – Django almost worked, but it was too long and had no real point despite claiming it might – The Hateful Eight lingers; heck it might actually be the best QT film of all. Like Jackie […]