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November 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Strong Female Lead

Instead of counting the number of lines that the female characters did not have in the latest Martin Scorsese movie, a better move might be to watch Nicole Kidman in the movie Destroyer, or Natalie Portman in Vox Lux, or Maggie Gyllenhaal in…well… anything, but most recently The Kindergarten Teacher. There are many other examples […]

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July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Vox Lux [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] 

Various Artists: Vox Lux [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Three Six Zero Recordings/Columbia Records Straight up, I’ll tell you that I fucking loved this movie! And I would have been prepared to love the soundtrack just for the Scott Walker score. And when I say that I mean just for exisiting – I was on board with the idea before hearing it, or […]

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July 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Vox Lux: DVD

Vox Lux  Director: Brady Corbet  Madman  Vox Lux comes from actor/director Brady Corbet. It’s the 30-year-old’s second full-length feature and it’s something of a Sunset Blvd. for the me/#metoo generation; a 21st century masterpiece.   Spanning 1999-2017 and narrated – brilliantly, exacerbating the fable-like quality of it – by Willem Dafoe, the film tells the coming of age and then comeback of Celeste Montgomery. Played […]