James Marsh
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The feature debut from directorial siblings Simon and Zeke Hawkins is a tense and earthy film noir that wears its pulp influences proudly on its sleeve as it weaves a… Read More
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An intriguing premise is left under-developed in this lacklustre horror comedy that has aspirations towards Joe Dante and Frank Henenlotter. Ken Marino’s irritible bowel syndrome proves to be caused by… Read More
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The Pang Brothers have had a rocky time in recent years, but their Guangzhou-set update of The Towering Inferno, they have produced their best film in years. That’s not to… Read More
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Incredibly convoluted but surprisingly entertaining buddy action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as undercover agents from rival agencies, both out to crack a drug cartel who are initially… Read More
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Roger Corman adapted a number of Edgar Allan Poe stories for the big screen, and frequently colloborated with horror icon Vincent Price. The Fall of the House of Usher proved… Read More
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More prep work for an appearance on the Auteur Cast show meant revisiting one of the most ridiculous of all the Bond films. Roger Moore teams up with Lois Chiles’… Read More
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I never bothered to see 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick, but Vin Diesel’s blind convict originated in 2000’s Pitch Black, a fun if slightly throwaway Alien knock-off that saw a… Read More
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Sofia Coppola’s latest has a serious problem at its core – it is not nearly condemning enough about its vacuous, materialistic, fame-obsessed protagonists, who rob the Hollywood homes of famous… Read More
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Until I have managed to successfully avoid the films of Rob Zombie, not particularly through any deliberate intention on my part, but simply because I have had not overwhelming desre… Read More
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The third installment in Richard Linklater’s series of films examining the evolving relationship between Jesse and Celine proves to be the best yeat, and one of the year’s most accomplished… Read More
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Richard Linklater and his stars/co-writers Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy revisit Jesse and Celine once more in the third installment of their ever-improving Before franchise. It is fair to say… Read More
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Set nine years after the events in Vienna, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet again in Paris, where Jesse is giving a reading from his new novel –… Read More
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In the run-up to the release of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, it seemed appropriate to revisit his two earlier installments in the occasionally intersecting lives of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and… Read More
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Arguably the scariest of Guillermo del Toro’s films to-date, this chilling ghost story takes place in a remote orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. When young Carlos is dumped there… Read More
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Kevin Costner was on the cusp of becoming a huge A-list star when he took the lead in this rather grim but intriguing thriller from Tony Scott. On leaving the… Read More
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When first published in 2005, critics were quick to dismiss Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series out-of-hand as an Americanised rip-off of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter juggernaut. However,… Read More
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When the decapitated body of a missing schoolgirl is discovered, she becomes just the latest victim in a string of vicious child murders that has rocked an otherwise sleepy Israeli… Read More
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I had always harboured fond memories of Dario Argento’s 1982 slasher flick, as it was the very first of his films I ever saw. I had not rewatched it until… Read More
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