Star Wars: A Critical Fantasy

Disney’s decision not to offer advance press screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (except for a hand-picked few) merely confirms what we all know anyway: this film has nothing to gain from film critics. Tickets will sell anyway – in fact, already have done so in record numbers – and Disney has no need for…

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The Film Critic (2013)

The Film Critic first published by Grolsch Film Works Film critics may at times fancy themselves to be heroic figures, like Michael Fassbender’s dashing spy-cum-cinephile Lt Archie Hicox in Inglourious Basterds, a debonair, gun-toting journalist recruited by Churchill himself to help assassinate Hitler and end the War – and recruited precisely for his expertise in German film…