Monument (2026) Film review | Movie-Blogger.com

In Monument, directed by Bryan Singer, the Israelis are still in Lebanon after the invasion that began in 1982 with Operation Peace for Galilee. The South Lebanon Army commissions Israeli architect Yacov Rechter, who works together with his son Amnon, to build a monument honoring Lebanese soldiers. While Yacov accepts the deal, Amnon decides to…

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Michael review – legacy management 101

Forget all the bad stuff you ever knew about Michael Jackson. Wipe it from your mind. If you happen to be thinking back to the tabloid circus, the PR own-goals and all those eccentric court appearances where he was turning up in his jimmy-jams – those moments that engulfed his later life and tarnished his…

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Ultras review – shoots and scores

Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner is a diehard IFK Göteborg fan and was partly driven to make a documentary about ultras, a subculture of diehard football fans, following the suicide of her close friend (explored in her previous film, The Traffic Lights Turn Blue Tomorrow). Going to football matches and the people she found there helped her through the…

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Rediscovering Singapore’s first action heroine

“Are you sexy, beautiful and fast?” An advertisement in a 1977 edition of Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times asked. ​“Beautiful, sexy and equally fast with hands and brains – if you think you fit this description, the title role in a spy thriller movie awaits you.”  The promise of explosive action intrigued 17-year-old Doris Young, who answered…

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