James Marsh
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Michael Winterbottom’s rose-tinted biopic of Paul Raymond, purveyor of pornography and sleaze in London’s SoHo, creates a wonderfully authentic sense of time and place, and boasts a pair of knockout… Read More
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An undisputed classic of American Silent Cinema and one of the very best examples of physical comedy committed to screen, Safety Last! remains the best-known film of Harold Lloyd, despite… Read More
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Huge disappointment after the surprisingly witty original. Here, the film seems completely disinterested in its characters, so ripe with nuance and subversion, and is instead content simply to gross out… Read More
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Excellent folloy up to Take Shelter from director Jeff Nichols, starring Matthew McConaughey as a fugitive hiding out in the bayous of Arkansas, who is discovered by two young lads,… Read More
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There are some epic displays of sleight of hand in Robert Bresson’s tale of crime through desperation, but it’s not much of a thrill ride. Many great filmmakers of crime… Read More
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Fritz Lang’s excellent sequel to his silent epic Dr. Mabuse The Gambler (which I’ve not yet seen) sees the eponymous master criminal incarcerated in a mental asylum, where he perpetually… Read More
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Some grumbled about Antoine Fuqua’s straight-faced approach to this “Die Hard in The White House” wannabe, but I mostly enjoyed the way it got back to basics, without the need… Read More
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I never got around to seeing the first film in the series that looked like little more than an American knock-off of Harry Potter, albeit one embroiled in the world… Read More
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My first daliance with Douglas Sirk saw me inadvertently stumble onto a classic. Rock Hudson plays an ambitious journalist, who bumbles into the world of daredevil stunt pilots and gatecrashes… Read More
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It was only while watching this film that I came to the realisation that I had never seen a film directed by Joe Swanberg before now. I was familiar with… Read More
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Paul Schader make a rocky return to filmmaking, bringing a script by Bret Easton Ellis to the screen with the help of porn star James Deen and the loose canon… Read More
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A pinnacle of sorts in the world of bizarro Euro-horror that manages to stand alone as a singular work of such courage, confidence and baffling derangement that once seen it… Read More
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I always enjoy checking out these animated DC/Marvel movies, just because I realise how little I know about the wider superhero universe and see them as a nice, handy crash… Read More
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While there’s no denying the Disney/Depp relationship went stale a long time ago and his clownish buffoonery has entirely consumed the once-great screen actor, there is still plenty to appreciate… Read More
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Overlong but consistently funny, Paul Feig follows up the hugely successful Bridesmaids with another female-centric comedy, this time turning Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy into action heroines. The plot is… Read More
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Dante Lam follows up his action spectacular The Viral Factor with this far more character focused and melodramatic story of two MMA fighters in Macau. Nick Cheung goes even further… Read More
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Quintessentially Australian, yet wholly unique, Wake in Fright was directed by Canadian Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and stars British actors Donald Pleasence and Gary Bond, as the school teacher with… Read More
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As the Marvel superhero juggernaut continues to produce a string of epic-scale blockbusters, it is refreshing to see the latest outing for Logan, the adamantium-clawed X-Man, rein in the action… Read More
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