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i'm anna. from melbourne, australia. i post and reblog things that inspire me. i write film reviews and reflections at FILM GRIMOIRE.

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Television Shows I've Binged Across 2018

Television Shows I’ve Binged Across 2018

Hello all! Surprise… I’ve been missing for a while. I miss writing about film and television and other fun things and I miss chatting with you all, but life has been nuts, and that’s the truth. Across buying a house and moving in, decorating/repairing said house, the usual craziness plus work, there has been no time. I don’t expect that I’ll have much time from here on out to dedicate to Film…

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February 2018 Favourites

Happy March everyone! I hope everyone had an excellent February. As always, it does seem like time is flying during these first few months of the year. It feels like it’s going to be Oscars time any day now, and that’s because it is! Approximately tomorrow, in Australian terms. Whilst I have my hopes for who and what might win, I do think it’s a strong year with a lot of worthy contenders.…

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Two New Releases I Enjoyed: I, Tonya (2017) & Lady Bird (2017)

Two New Releases I Enjoyed: I, Tonya (2017) & Lady Bird (2017)

I’ve been seeing a bunch of films at the cinema lately, perhaps making up for a 2016 where I barely visited. There have been a lot of quality films released recently, and it’s no coincidence that it’s Oscars season. I recently saw I, Tonya (2017) and Lady Bird (2017) – two films with extremely strong female leads, fantastic performances, and with stories and themes that deeply resonated with me.…

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Thoughts on... Get Out (2017)

Thoughts on… Get Out (2017)

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined. (source)…

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January 2018 Favourites

The first month of 2o18 is all over and done with, and with the end of the month brings a new promise of Oscar season new releases and the earthly desire of a golden man statue . With another month gone, it is time to reflect on the good things. I’ve seen a whole bunch of good films this month, and some classics, but have been mostly bingeing American Horror Story. Here are the films I watched in…

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"Is it worth paying for a ticket?": All the Money in the World (2017)

“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: All the Money in the World (2017)

Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather, Jean Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), is the richest man in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he’s notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson’s abduction is not reason enough for him to part with any of his fortune. All the Money in the World (2017) follows Gail, (Michelle Williams),…

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"Is it worth paying for a ticket?": Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

In an effort to track down who raped and murdered her daughter, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) has three billboards erected outside her town of Ebbing, Missouri. They accuse the Sheriff (Woody Harrelson) of doing nothing to catch the killer. This causes a largely adverse reaction amongst the town’s folk , not least one of the sheriff’s deputies, the hot-headed, irascible Jason Dixon (Sam…

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Thoughts on... The Villainess (2017)

Thoughts on… The Villainess (2017)

Raised by gangsters and trained from a tender age to be a pitiless machine of death and destruction, the unequalled assassin Sook-Hee is finally captured. With the promise of a brand-new life, Sook-Hee is recruited by a nefarious Intelligence Agency as a sleeper agent that will be allowed to be free after a full decade of service; however, this is easier said than done. Inevitably, the past will…

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"Is it worth paying for a ticket?": Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game’s jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji – you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they’ll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan…

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Blindspot 2018: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

The year is 1926 and Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell…

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Good Time (2017): "You ever do time before?"

Good Time (2017): “You ever do time before?”

Motivated by an almost ferocious love for his intellectually disabled brother, Nick, and an explosive mix of desperation and thirst for a better life, the abrasive and fledgling criminal, Connie, involves his sibling in an ill-conceived bank robbery that swears to be a quick and easy job. Instead, things go utterly wrong, and Nick will wind up in Rikers Island after one unanticipated…

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My Top Ten Songs of 2017

I never talk about music here at Film Grimoire, unless it’s part of a film review. Which is strange, because I love music so much. But there comes a time, once a year, when I am forced to make a top ten list of my songs for the previous year. I don’t do this voluntarily (but nor do I do it with a gun put to my head) – I do it for the Triple J Hottest 100, a day once a year where Australian radio…

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My 2018 Blindspot Films

2018 marks my fourth year of participating in the Blindspot challenge. And as always, there continues to be a neverending list of films I feel like I should have seen already, and haven’t for whatever reason. I suppose this is the curse of film bloggers – so little time, so many amazing works of art to consume. This is the beauty of the Blindspot challenge – it challenges us to identify twelve…

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2017 In Review...

2017 In Review…

As I very recently stated in my December favourites post for 2017 – Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2018! I trust that everyone’s new year is off to a cracking start; at the very least, I hope everyone had a fantastic and fun New Year’s Eve and didn’t get too crazy. When reflecting on 2017, I have to acknowledge that the films that I watch and focus on in my blog obviously exist in a…

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December 2017 Favourites

Happy new year everybody and welcome to 2018! I hope everyone had an amazing New Year’s Eve. I had an awesome night spent with friends playing Jackbox Games and getting nicely tipsy on apple cider but not too messy. I was proud of myself in the month of December because I got back into the swing of writing about film. This year has been a patchy one in terms of actually writing something of…

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Blindspot 2017: Andrei Rublev (1966)

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev (Anatoliy Solonitsyn). Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he…

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