Short Reviews
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A decade after it was announced, Wong Kar Wai finally delivers his martial arts epic, starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai as wing chun advocate Ip Man and Zhang Ziyi has… Read More
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The Wachowskis team up with Tom Tykwer to tackle David Mitchell’s multi-stranded parable, with polarizing results. Read my review here Read More
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After months of hope and anticipation were replaced by aching disappointment when Prometheus first opened, I though it only fair to give the film a re-watch on Blu-ray. Sadly it… Read More
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After F.W. Murnau’s move to the USA, this ambitious co-production sees the German director head down to the islands of the South Pacific for a classic tale of forbidden love… Read More
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Josef von Sternberg’s cautionary tale is best-remembered for Marlene Dietrich’s risque performance as a small-town showgirl, but in truth the film is really about Emil Jannings’ bewitched school professor. When… Read More
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A gentle, sweet-natured story of the unlikely friendship between a young rookie filmmaker (Oguri Shun) who comes to the countrysie to shoot a zombie movie, and a reclusive lumberjack (Yakusho… Read More
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This Thai horror anthology is an early contender for worst film of 2013. Three different ghost stories from a trio of relatively new directors, fails to deliver scares, entertainment or… Read More
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Lu Chuan follows up his powerful City of Life and Death with this big-budget retelling of one of China’s many pivotal power struggles. Liu Ye, Daniel Wu and Chang Chen… Read More
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Inspired as much by my frustration at being unable to see either Spielberg’s Lincoln or Tarantino’s Django Unchained yet – two high-profile awards contenders both dealing with the topic of… Read More
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A surprising change of pace after the profound intoxicating power of Blue, this second chapter in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is a lighter, goofier affair. Karol (Zbigniew… Read More
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After finally watching Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, it seemed the perfect opportunity to revisit Les Blank’s excellent documentary on the torturous making of the film. Herzog’s undertaking uncannily mirrors that of his… Read More
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Werner Herzog continues his troubled, yet fruitful partnership with actor Klaus Kinski to tell this empassioned and rather insane story of an Irish opera lover in turn-of-the-century Peru, chasing his… Read More
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