USA
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Noomi Rapace reteams with Niels Arden Oplev, the Swedish director of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for his Hollywood debut. She plays a facially scarred car crash… 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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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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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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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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Shane Carruth follows up Primer with this confounding, beautiful and endlessly intriguing examination of memory, identity and relationships. Read More
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Shane Carruth follows up his impressive, confounding 2004 time-travel mindbender, Primer, with this equally ambitious science fiction thriller. Less easy to pigeonhole, Upstream Color is the story of a young… Read More
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Just revisited Abel Ferrara’s crime epic for the first time in over a decade – and it’s still brilliant. Read More
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Abel Ferrara’s King of New York was a milestone film for me in many ways. In my early years as a voracious film fan, I graduated from typical adventure fare… Read More
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Having never been much of a Star Trek fan, and emotionally underwhelmed by the 2009 re-boot, I had zero expectations from J.J. Abrams’ second outing with the crew of the… Read More
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David Fincher’s attack on the 1% proves just as poignant, prescient and thrilling today as it was when it was first released, to much disappointment, back in 1997. Michael Douglas… Read More
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Bela Lugosi stars as a mysterious slave master in Haiti, whose penetrating gaze seems enough to bring the dead back to life to serve his bidding as shuffling zombies. Many… Read More
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Venturing across the border I sought out the China version of Marvel’s Iron Man 3, complete with added Wang Quexi and Fan Bingbing. Was it worth it? Not at all. Read More
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