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Sisu: White-Knuckle Mythmaking

October 17, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Helander opens with a definition card—“Sisu is a Finnish word that cannot be translated… a white-knuckle form of…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Adventure, Finland, Horror, Hudson Moura, Nazis, War

Circuits Without Sparks: Tron: Ares

October 9, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Tron: Ares returns to the franchise’s neon metaphysics with a premise that ought to feel timely: a world…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hudson Moura

Premium Streaming Cinema: The Lost Bus (Apple TV) + Play Dirty (Amazon Prime Video)

October 4, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura The conversation about “straight-to-streaming” releases is no longer about dumping weak titles, rather it’s about calibrating audience,…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Streaming Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Curtain Calls and Continuities: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

October 3, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale leans into what has made the franchise singular: an impeccably produced British period…

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Wrong Place, Thin Plot, Right Tempo: Caught Stealing by Darren Aronofsky

September 30, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Darren Aronofsky’s first post-The Whale pivot is a full-throttle genre swerve: a bruised, breathless caper-thriller set in 1990s…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Comedy, Crime, Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Thriller

From Uprising to Manhunt: “Free Borders, Free Bodies” and the Political Drift of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

September 29, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura “Free borders, free bodies, free choices, free fucking fear!” Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) spits at Col. Steven J.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Refuge and Ruse: Ego’s Underwritten Romance in French Lover

September 28, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura French Lover frames the film set as a fairy-tale enclave—à la Notting Hill—where cinema becomes both refuge and ruse.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Performance and Moral Order in Americana: Chad Powers (Glen Powell) and The Lowdown (Ethan Hawke)

September 26, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In a season crowded with star-led vehicles, two projects stand out for how explicitly they turn performance…

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Posted in: Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Series Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Bau, Artist at War: A Heroic Life Reduced to Hollow Reverence

September 25, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Sean McNamara’s Bau, Artist at War attempts to capture the remarkable life of Joseph Bau—a Holocaust survivor, document forger,…

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Amélie Bonnin’s Musicals “Partir un jour”: Gendered Gaze, Unsung Love, Loosely Held Threads

September 21, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Updated on October 31, 2025 With Partir un jour (Leave One Day, feature’s English title), French writer-director Amélie Bonnin returns…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Jordan Peele’s Him: When Greatness and Storytelling Both Collapse Under Pressure

September 18, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In Him (2025), director Justin Tipping and producer Jordan Peele deliver a surreal, psychologically charged descent into…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Swiped: No Match Found — A Biopic That Misses the Mark

September 13, 2025 hudmoura

Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s tech biopic tries to swipe right on feminist heroism, but leaves behind an empty profile.

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Posted in: Biopic, Cinema, Film Review, Hollywood, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

The Cost of Heaven: A Parable of Illusions, Risk, and Financial Desperation

September 12, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Co-written by director Mathieu Denis, The Cost of Heaven (Gagne ton ciel, Québec, 2025) is a taut,…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura, Quebec Cinema

The Weight of Wit: Transatlantic Comedy and Marital Cruelty in The Roses

August 30, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Jay Roach—whose career toggles between broad American farce (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) and sober topical drama (Bombshell)—returns…

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Cozy Crimes, British Wit: Senior Agency in The Thursday Murder Club

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by Hudson Moura Directed by Chris Columbus—best known for American box-office hits such as Home Alone (1990) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)—The Thursday Murder…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Analysis, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura, Netflix

Eenie Meanie: Fast, Furious, and a Bit Flimsy

August 22, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Written and directed by Shawn Simmons, Eenie Meanie is a gender-flipped car-chase thriller that never quite decides whether it…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Between Memoir and Melodrama: The Problematic Framing of ‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ and Its Double Bind of Bias and Misinformation

August 16, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Created by K.J. Steinberg, known for This Is Us and Gossip Girl, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is an eight-episode limited…

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Posted in: Series Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Vanessa Kirby’s Netflix Psychological Thriller ‘Night Always Comes’: A Gritty but Predictable Descent into Survival and Trauma

August 15, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Directed by Benjamin Caron and written by Sarah Conradt, Night Always Comes (2025) is an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura, Netflix

How “Alien Earth” Reinvents the Alien Franchise: A Review of Noah Hawley’s FX Series on Disney+

August 5, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura With Alien Earth, creator and director Noah Hawley boldly extends the legacy of Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett’s…

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The Fantastic Four First Steps: Retro-Futurist Heroics and the Mathematics of Family

July 26, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) is a daring blend of nostalgic pastiche and futuristic spectacle, reinventing…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Hollywood, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Superhero

Truth, Justice, and Geopolitics: James Gunn’s Bold Reframing of Superman

July 21, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In Superman (2025), written and directed by James Gunn, the iconic Kryptonian returns not just to save…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Superhero

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