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Four years after Gareth Edwards exploded onto the sci-fi scene with his inventive and industrious indie alien invasion flick Monsters, first-time director Tom Green delivers a sequel that bears little… Read More
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Few actors can make a mid-life crisis seem appealing, but as Dan, the dishevelled alcoholic music producer in John Carney’s Begin Again, Mark Ruffalo does precisely that. Nursing a failed… Read More
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Yee Chih-yen, Taiwanese director of the much-celebrated Blue Gate Crossing, delivers a heartfelt, humorous and poignant coming of age story in Meeting Dr. Sun. Part high school drama, part adventurous… Read More
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It is understandable that Warner Brothers and New Line would want to continue the success of last year’s The Conjuring. The period haunted house flick proved a surprise summer smash… Read More
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Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, with its washed out colour palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like one. Read More
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Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, with its washed out colour-palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like one. Fincher has… Read More
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South Korean indie provocateur Lee Sang-woo returns with the third and final instalment in his thematic “bad family” trilogy, which follows three grown up brothers, reunited when their pedophile father… Read More
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The latest in a string of stylish crime thrillers to emerge from Scandinavia, Tommy is the new film from Swedish director Tarik Saleh, and offers a blistering change of pace… Read More
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Keanu Reeves successfully reinvents himself once again, this time as a former assassin forced out of retirement by the shenanigans of nasty Russian mobsters, in this lovingly nostalgic shoot-em-up from… Read More
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One of the more notorious production debacles in recent memory, the maelstrom behind the scenes of New Line’s The island of Dr. Moreau (1996) is the subject of this candid… Read More
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One of the more notorious production debacles in recent memory, the maelstrom behind the scenes of New Line’s The island of Dr. Moreau (1996) is the subject of this candid… Read More
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The second instalment of the ambitious horror anthology series is a tighter, more efficiently-paced kaleidoscope of international tastes and styles than its 2012 predecessor, with a greater emphasis on gallows… Read More
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Mark Hartley’s unofficial biography of Cannon Films impresarios Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus is equal parts reverent and dumbfounded in its depiction of these maverick Hollywood outsiders. Read my review Read More
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The Expendables 3 accomplishes an almost impossible task, managing to be the most enjoyable entry in the franchise so far, while simultaneously breaking almost every rule of Stallone’s original mission… Read More
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The Expendables 3 accomplishes an almost impossible task, managing to be the most enjoyable entry in the franchise so far, while simultaneously breaking almost every rule of Stallone’s original mission… Read More
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Nicholas Tse proves he is better-suited to tough guy roles than romantic leads, but his inert performance here opposite Gao Yuanyuan is far from the only problem with Snow Zou’s… Read More
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In 1929, just two years after changing the face of cinematic science fiction with Metropolis, German filmmaker Fritz Lang returned to the genre with the infinitely more grounded and realistic… Read More
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The ghosts of the past haunt Colin Firth’s POW in this carefully told true story of persecution, revenge and forgiveness. Firth plays Eric Lomax, a World War II veteran who… Read More
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