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2024

Watched 14 Jun 2025

Having survived Nazism and the Camps, once celebrated architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) comes to America, eventually followed by his similarly damaged wife (Felicity Jones) and young niece (Raffey Cassidy). After an unpromising encounter with the superwealthy Harris Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), László finds himself commissioned to design and build a massive monument to the industrialist’s late mother - and so begins a vicious battle of wills between artist and patron, each trying to get what they want from…

2025

Watched 14 Jun 2025

Coming with all the grimly funny fatalism of the Final Destination films, Osgood Perkins’ adaptation of a Stephen King short story makes a hand-me-down toy allegorise a legacy of mortality down the male line. For this monkey’s paw-like plaything delivers sudden death to the beat of its drum, and ultimately, in an orgy of grotesque destruction, brings annihilation and apocalypse to an American small town. Full of dark gallow's humour and surreally contrived set-pieces of slaughter - which bleed and splatter across the screen in LG OLED’s filmmaking mode - this tracks a father and his estranged son encountering one hell of a memento mori.

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2015

4

"...down in the basement the film's dual status as indie buddy movie and psychological horror converges into one. This climactic sequence, unbearably tense but also profoundly moving, takes friendship to its outer limits, while presenting the most alarming aspects of mental illness in the most sympathetic of lights."
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2014

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"The baroque body count is just a red herring, with 's insularity, chauvinism and bad blood the real devil here. It's a dark lesson in history which, released in the wake of the Hebdo massacre, seems all too prescient."

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