James Marsh
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The director of Shutter and Alone breaks all the box office records in Thailand with his latest, a vivacious and humorous retelling of one of the country’s most famous ghost… Read More
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Abbas Kiarostami continues his filmmaking sabbatical away from his Iranian homeland, which began in Tuscany with Certified Copy and now moves to Tokyo. As with many of the director’s films,… Read More
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I managed to miss this at a couple of different festivals last year, before finally catching up with it this week on iTunes. The feature debut from Eron Sheean stars… Read More
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I’ve had a copy of this film sitting in a boxset entitled The Exorcist Complete Anthology for many years now, and never felt especially compelled to give it a watch… Read More
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Sometimes you just need to seek the comfort of an evergreen classic, and with Shane Black delighting audiences around the world with his box office smash, Iron Man 3, I… Read More
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Winner of the grand prize at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, this is the story of Saori, a young working girl who takes a new gig visiting and… Read More
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Taking its lead from the phenomenally successful Fast Five, Furious 6 ploughs forward at law-breaking speed in the franchise’s newfound action movie guise. Gone are the car chases, save for… Read More
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Chilean director Nicolas Lopez teams up with Eli Roth for a sadistic horror-disaster movie hybrid that follows a group of tourists through the rubble and chaos that follows a spectacular… Read More
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Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez teams up with actor-writer-producer Eli Roth for a horror-disaster movie hybrid that sees a dispirate group of tourists and revellers battle to survive after a massive… Read More
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The debut feature from “the French Hitchcock” Henri-Georges Clouzot is a darkly humourous murder mystery, centring on a police inspector and his plucky girlfriend, who go undercover at a boarding… Read More
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I recently picked up Arrow Video’s double pack of Lamberto Bava’s Demons, which also included the sequel. I had not seen either film before, but this second entry seemed to… Read More
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One of my all-time favourite films, this was my first chance to see Roman Polanski’s gorgeously realized retro noir on the big screen. Jack Nicholson was right at the height… Read More
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Early horror offering from Wes Craven, that arrives after his grungy and controversial thrillers, like The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before he found… Read More
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My favourite Kurosawa film, and quite possibly my favourite Asian film of all-time, this masterful morality play changed the language of cinema forever. Its revelation that narrators, performances, even the… Read More
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Baz Luhrmann takes an enthusiastic swing at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic of American literature, and while he never holds back on his trademark aesthetic of excess – even going so… Read More
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