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REVIEW: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

May 17, 2022 Grant Watson

It seems fitting that Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick was delayed by a bewildering three years since it completed shooting. It finally reaches cinemas around the world this week, set back first by an extended post-production and then by the … Continue reading REVIEW: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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REVIEW: Tropic Thunder (2008)

April 24, 2021 Grant Watson

To my mind, Tropic Thunder (2008) is the boldest, strongest, and flat-out funniest comedy that Ben Stiller has directed. While it satirises an easy target – Hollywood excess – it does so in such a savage and unrelenting fashion that on some … Continue reading REVIEW: Tropic Thunder (2008)

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