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Ross McIndoe @OneBigWiggle
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Ross McIndoe@OneBigWiggle
25 Feb 2021
Decided to try and assemble a bunch of my film writing in one convenient Letterboxy place: boxd.it/biWEk
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Going by UK dates:
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14 Oct 2024
✨ four favorite films of 2024 so far:
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10 Oct 2024
The answers that Peacock's #TEACUP doles out are a lot less interesting than the questions. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/tv/teacup-…

‘Teacup’ Review: A Sci-Fi Mystery That Keeps You Spinning in Place

The answers the series doles out are a lot less interesting than the questions.

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5 Oct 2024
Hulu's #LaMaquina boasts the same relentless energy as Gael García Bernal’s eponymous boxer. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/tv/la-maqu…

‘La Máquina’ Review: A Boxing Tale That’s Light on Its Feet

The miniseries boasts the same relentless energy as Gael García Bernal’s eponymous boxer.

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1 Oct 2024
The particulars of time travel in Michael Felker’s lo-fi sci-fi thriller THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT give the whole thing a tactile quality. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/thing…

'Things Will Be Different' Review: A Time-Travel Thriller with a Twist

'Things Will Be Different' goes from a sci-fi-tinged sibling drama to a paranoid thriller to a full-blown action flick.

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2 Oct 2024
It quickly becomes clear that Greg Jardin’s IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE isn’t just here to dazzle us with visual trickery. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/its-w…

'It's What's Inside' Review: Greg Jardin's Maximalist Black Comedy

It quickly becomes clear that Greg Jardin’s film isn’t just here to dazzle us with visual trickery.

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2 Oct 2024
In THE OUTRUN, Saoirse Ronan delivers a performance that’s rawer and rougher at the edges than perhaps anything else the actor has done to date. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/the-o…

'The Outrun' Review: Navigating the Waves of Addiction

'The Outrun' captures the conflict between the new and the old, the noise and motion of the modern world and space and stillness of the old.

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5 Sep 2024
#FightNight uses a criminal case from 50 years ago to explore a critical moment in U.S. history. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/tv/fight-n…

‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ Review: A Stylish ’70s Snapshot

The series skillfully uses a criminal case from 50 years ago to explore a critical moment in U.S. history.

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5 Sep 2024
#ThePerfectCouple delights in both concealing and revealing its characters' secrets. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/tv/the-per…

‘The Perfect Couple’ Review: Nicole Kidman Turns Up the Ice

The series delights in both concealing and revealing its secrets.

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26 Aug 2024
As promised by its title, Guillem Morales’s thriller THE WASP, starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dromer, is a film with a stinger in its tail. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/the-w…

'The Wasp' Review: A Stagey Thriller with a Stinger in Its Tail

At its best, 'The Wasp' does a quick and concise job of situating its main characters in their very different lives.

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23 Aug 2024
Zoë Kravitz’s BLINK TWICE somehow manages to show its hand too early while also playing its cards too close to its chest. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/blink…

'Blink Twice' Review: How to Get Out of Pussy Island

'Blink Twice' somehow manages to show its hand too early while also playing its cards too close to its chest.

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The Skinny@theskinnymag
21 Aug 2024
As @edfilmfest wraps up, a batch of EIFF reviews from us, including FIVE STARS for @AbdolrezaKahani's A Shrine theskinny.co.uk/festivals/ed… [reviews by @onebigwiggle @CarmenChloie]
A still from A SHRINE.

ALT A still from A SHRINE.
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21 Aug 2024
The cunningly devised STRANGE DARLING wields our assumptions against us like a sharp implement. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/stran…

'Strange Darling' Review: A Squirm-Inducing Battle of Wills

JT Mollner's cunningly devised 'Strange Darling' wields our assumptions against us like a sharp implement.

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Netflix now so desperate for IP that they're adapting the fake books Roman Roy makes up at dinner parties.
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19 Aug 2024
The Russo Brothers’ ‘THE ELECTRIC STATE,’ starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, will premiere on Netflix on March 2025.
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18 Aug 2024
In THE OUTRUN, Saoirse Ronan delivers a performance that’s rawer and rougher at the edges than perhaps anything else the actor has done to date. Read @OneBigWiggle's #GFF25 review. slantmagazine.com/film/the-o…

'The Outrun' Review: Navigating the Waves of Addiction

'The Outrun' captures the conflict between the new and the old, the noise and motion of the modern world and space and stillness of the old.

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Got to work on a very cool, Alien-themed essay for Wisecrack this month. It's all about how life is meaningless and the universe hates you specifically :) youtu.be/eP6XaR3E4rs?si=Akki…

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Also liking the credits. I am a mononym now, like Madonna or Shrek.
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12 Aug 2024
BLUE SUN PALACE’s tale is filled with quiet spaces, and the way the texture of this quiet changes over the course of the film is a testament to its power. Read @OneBigWiggle's #EIFF review. slantmagazine.com/film/blue-…

'Blue Sun Palace' Review: A Quietly Gripping Portrait of Grief

In Constance Tsang's feature-length directorial debut, 'Blue Sun Palace,' silence speaks volumes.

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5 Aug 2024
James Marsh's DANCE FIRST seems content to merely adapt the “Personal Life” section of Samuel Beckett’s Wikipedia page. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/dance…

'Dance First' Review: A Dissonant Samuel Beckett Biopic

James Marsh's 'Dance First' flirts with a more adventurous approach that might have yielded something new.

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Just started reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation. Should have known this thing would be full of... ... footnotes.
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1 Aug 2024
Like a well-executed heist, Doug Liman's THE INSTIGATORS knows how to get in and get out with minimal fuss. Read @OneBigWiggle's review. slantmagazine.com/film/the-i…

'The Instigators' Review: Doug Liman’s Fleet-Footed Crime Caper

While 'The Instigators' might not be the richest text that the genre has ever had to offer, it's unlikely to leave anyone feeling robbed.

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