Review
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David O. Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel has received a huge awards push this season, becoming the first film since Reds in 1982 to receive nominations in all four… Read More
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It was a foregone conclusion that Quentin Tarantino would one day produce his take on the spaghetti western. There are glimpses of this distinctive genre’s style in many of his… Read More
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The creative siblings behind The Matrix trilogy, Lana and Andy Wachowski, team up with German filmmaker Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) for a bold cinematic adaptation of David Mitchell’s equally… Read More
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After the phenomenal success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy it was a foregone conclusion that sooner or later we would see The Hobbit adapted for the big… Read More
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The Spanish crew behind supernatural thriller The Orphanage turns its attentions to the real-life horrors of the 2004 Asian Tsunami disaster, but the results prove too exploitative and insensitive to… Read More
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After its world premiere in Korea at last month’s Busan International Film Festival, Longman Leung and Sunny Luk’s much-touted directorial debut Cold War finally opens on home turf. Originally slated… Read More
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Were we ever going to be prepared for SKYFALL? When Sam Mendes was announced as director of the 23rd official James Bond movie, there were notable rumblings on the possibility… Read More
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I’m not an expert on American history. I’m not even American, and before tonight my knowledge of Abraham Lincoln didn’t stem far beyond acknowledging he was the tall dude with… Read More
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In the year 2089, archeologists Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) discover a series of matching symbols in various unrelated ancient sites around the world. They lead an interstellar… Read More
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First-time feature director Rupert Sanders finds himself at the helm of this ambitious, straight-faced adaptation of the Brothers’ Grimm fairy-tale, with Kristen Stewart cast as the “fairest of them all”,… Read More
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If there was any doubt that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp needed to stop working with each other and go and sit quietly on their own in a blackened room,… Read More
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When it was first announced that David Fincher, hot off the hugely impressive awards contender THE SOCIAL NETWORK, would be directing an English language remake of Niels Arden Oplev’s international… Read More
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Not content with having secured the opening night slot and a probable box office hit with his new rom-com sequel, LOVE IN THE BUFF, writer-director Pang Ho Cheung has completed… Read More
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Writer-director Pang Ho Cheung’s 2010 comedy LOVE IN A PUFF was something of a happy accident. During the agonising and lengthy post-production dramas that befell his Josie Ho slasher vehicle,… Read More
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For his debut film, director Josh Trank employs two of the most tired and overused themes in mainstream movies today – superheroes and found footage. For many potential viewers, one… Read More
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A secretive and controversial figure throughout his life, J. Edgar Hoover founded the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935 and remained its director until his death in 1972. During… Read More
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Following the success of 2008’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Warner Bros delivers a second outing based loosely on 19th century science fiction literature. Originally planned to involve… Read More
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For the first time in twelve years, Jim Henson’s iconic puppet characters return to the big screen, but does anybody care? This is the question at the heart of James… Read More
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