Film Reviews from Gaz.

This is where Gaz from Real Movies Fake History writes in depth reviews on film. Everything from modern movies, Hollywood industry, all the way to the best in independent and foreign films. Consider it a place to get in depth and nuanced options on diverse cinema.

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Gladiator ll review

It’s another occasion to celebrate 86 year-old Ridley Scott’s world building prowess. Again he builds us a very masculine, very brawny Rome with a bigger budget, better technology and a script that’s more summertime trash than awards prestige.

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The Apprentice review

Your interest in this scrappy biopic of a transactional friendship rests solely on how much interest you still hold in uncovering the faint character building moments of Donald Trump.

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The Zone of Interest review

Jonathan Glazer’s disciplined The Zone of Interest (2023) is both a treatise on peripheral horror and an audacious act of demythologising. In the foreground, he adopts the slow living of upper-echelon Nazi life with it’s cups of tea and washing of long leather boots. In the background, the appalling questions raise their dreadful heads to turn domestic drama into appalling horror.

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The Killer review – Brutal, cold and oddly simple, but is it good?

I’ve heard that Fincher splits his work into two categories, movies and films. Se7en (1995) is a movie, an audience pleasing thriller with conventional crime table-setting. Not low-brow exactly, but greasy and gruesome in its traditional mystery scares. But The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) is a ‘film’, because thematically it’s a serious, unconventional, head-scratching experience full of thinly veiled philosophizing on the nature of life and death.

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The Creator review

Balancing big-budget world building, grief, and familial themes, Gareth Edwards’ ambitious sci-fi is primarily an action movie built from the bones of other, more original stories. And yet Edwards’ remarkable visual sensibility and a sense of gleeful homage keep this exciting endeavour mostly on track.

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House of Gucci review - Gaga Cinema

Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is a pulpy amalgamation of The Godfather and The Bold and Beautiful. As equally serious as it is campy, it’s a family saga of corruption and back-stabbing that ultimately entertains because it may be the longest and most expensive soap opera ever produced.

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