The Dirty Dozen
Hm, the January blues. It’s enough to make you want to curl up inside a darkened room. Which is fortunate, as there were so many great films in 2011, there’s a lot of catching up to do. Most shamefully, I missed out on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, and perhaps most painfully, Gianni Di Gregorio’s follow-up [...]
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Eleven in 2011
January 5th, 2012 No Comments
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Ten in 2010
January 6th, 2011 No Comments
And so, like a wet goat, another year is born; an ideal opportunity to reflect on 2010 and make widescreen resolutions for 2011. You may already be wading through Top Tens up and down the cyberland, but here’s my own little twist ending to the cinematic story of 2010, namely a countdown of the scenes [...]
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Film Review: 127 Hours (2010)
January 5th, 2011 No Comments
Audiences are bound to be divided over Danny Boyle’s flashy visuals, but James Franco goes all out on a limb to ground the supersonic 127 Hours with a bit of gravitas.
127 Hours
Rock Me More And More by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Nobody’s ever accused Danny Boyle of being minimalist. And after the rococo flourishes [...]
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Eleven in 2011
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