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Stephen A. Russell

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Stephen A Russell is a freelance film critic hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, and based in Melbourne, Australia. You can read his reviews at The New Daily, and listen in on Joy 94.9FM show Sunday Arts Magazine.

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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 98% “Stanley Kubrick’s B52 bomber jet-black satire of foolish politicians and the military might(y dumb) that backs them into the apocalypse ... [is] one of the greatest films of all end times.” – ScreenHub Apr 23, 2025 Full Review National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove (2025) “While some of the cinematic scale of the story is lost, the theatre craft is top-notch ... this Coogan-led take on Dr. Strangelove might not swoop and soar as spectacularly as the Kubrick, but it’s no bomb.” – ScreenHub Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 84% “Throw in a pinch of Hitchcock and a dash of De Palma and Landon plates up a deliciously addictive dish.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 19, 2025 Full Review Near Dark (1987) 83% “Near Dark fuses haunted poetry into its truck stop bones ... Caught halfway between farmyard dust and the traffic-light glare of insidiously encroaching industrialisation ... it’s low down and dirtier.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 19, 2025 Full Review From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 65% “Robert Rodriguez’ ... forked tongue-in-cheek From Dusk Till Dawn [is] a blast, replete with Peter Cushing in-joke and a disco ball of burning death.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 19, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 98% “A visually resplendent film with a sinewy frame that nimbly shifts tonally, Sinners shows Coogler at the top of his game.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% “With Scharfman’s clunking screenplay neither as satirically witty nor as scary as it needs to be, Death of a Unicorn’s potential is fatally impaled by shockingly poor CGI” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Legend (1985) 43% “Majestic stuff” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Black Moon (1975) 42% “Malle’s lucid dream, shot by Ingmar Bergman’s regular cinematographer Sven Nykvist in half-light in and around Malle’s 200-year-old pile in the Dordogne valley, is an unforgettable vision” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 96% “We want to be there with them in the fading light, and that’s the might of Sach’s quiet little ode to friendship.” – Time Out Mar 30, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 96% “Linklater knows how to draw the most intimate performances from Hawke – and he’s brilliant here. His pairing with Scott, so devastating in All of Us Strangers, is note-perfect.” – Time Out Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% “Black Bag crosses international borders ... But thanks to Koepp’s snappy dialogue, a gift in Soderbergh’s capable hands, it’s always as tightly drawn as the claustrophobic soirées that bookend its predominantly talkie action.” – ScreenHub Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Infinity Pool (2023) 87% “I enjoyed the callously macabre fall-out from Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth as White Lotus-like toffs unbound from consequence via dubious duplicates in horror scion Brandon Cronenberg’s erotic nightmare.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Gattaca (1997) 82% “It’s a cool-heeled but gripping musing on whether we should, just because we could, that also finds room for freaking Gore Vidal.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Never Let Me Go (2010) 71% “The psychological damage the reality of cloning unleashes in this acting tour de force of inexorable fate is as yuck-making as it’s possible to be.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Mar 6, 2025 Full Review The City of Lost Children (1995) 80% “As twisted a tale as you’ll encounter, right down to Ron Perlman performing in French phonetically, it’s a cornerstone of my youthful cinematic awakening.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% “Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s otherwise truly pathetic crash and burn of the xenomorph-driven franchise.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “More than a bit scrappy, on-the-nose and as bloated as a corpse crystalising in deep space ... But for all its pace-sagging heavy-handedness, it’s as wildly off-kilter as any of his proudly atonal horror stories, gloriously so.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Night Stage (2025) “It traces the path of carnage between a theatrical dancer with ambitions of becoming a 온라인카지노추천 star ... and an aspiring and very closeted politician. What could go wrong is very much about the uncontrolled horn in this hot mess (in the good way) ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Dreams in Nightmares (2024) “Big and bright and full of might as three very different, but nevertheless bonded mates go in search of a missing fourth wheel. It’s a real tonic in dark times.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Sorda (2025) “Spanish filmmaker Eva Libertad’s stunning ode to motherhood (a big theme this year) is the other film that left me blowing snotty tear bubbles into my hoodie sleeve this Berlinale.” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 53% “Unfairly maligned out of Sundance. Yes, it’s a big performance, but as anyone who has lost a loved one knows, despair is no pretty business” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 79% “A magical film that plays with the boundaries of fiction and then brutally brings us back to earth” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% “Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt’s rottenly ornate debut feature transforms the story like a pumpkin coach at midnight ... Now a body beautiful myth-destroying body horror ” – Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 100% “Bouncing from brilliantly conceived oddball planet to planet, Lesbian Space Princess is a frenetic, fun adventure where the jokes – both visual and verbal – make landfall at an astounding rate” – ScreenHub Feb 24, 2025 Full Review
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